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Word: arthropod (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
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Picture a toddler playing with Legos or Tinker Toys. Without any instruction, she tries putting them together. Finally, after a lot of trial and error, she assembles a little machine that actually does something. Much to her delight, it chugs along the floor like some fanciful arthropod out of A Bug's Life. As the precocious builder's parent, you would be proud--especially if you were told that what she did on her own has long eluded the world's most powerful computers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Robot Out of Cyberspace | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

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