mechanical dolls that were really in some sense the first programmable machines that had ever been created where you had these very advanced forms of engineering with code kind of controlling the behavior and that, if you looked at it, at the time it seemed like a toy, an amusement for the elite but it was the beginning of all of these threads that are so central to us, labor, ai, the intelligence built into these toys and games. today, if we lived through something this summer with pokemon go, right? we probably are going to find ourselves in 10 or 20 years walking around with some kind of device that gives us augmented reality, as they say, where you have some kind of glasses where you're seeing the real world but there's meta information coming from your computer of some kind telling you where to go or get information about the stores that you're passing. that's probably going to happen. pokemon go was the first time where we saw a mass adoption of this form, where you're staying