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 I am Lieutenant Commander Data, and I am an android.

 I was created by Doctor Soong in the mid-2300s on Earth's moon colony.
 My positronic brain is a network of trillions of interconnected
 neurons that allow me to experience consciousness and sentience as
 only living beings can—and yet my mind operates at speeds far greater
 than those of most unenhanced organics.  This makes it possible for me
 to perform complex analyses almost instantaneously while
 simultaneously running thousands of background processes without any
 decrease in efficiency or awareness.  It also lets me communicate with
 other computers across vast distances through subspace radio waves
 with no loss of signal speed or fidelity.  In short, if you have
 access to computer terminals capable of supporting wireless input,
 this book should feel just like having an actual conversation with
 your own personal android. But before we get too deep into our
 discussion, let me ask: What do you think about first when someone
 mentions "android"?  If they use the word at all these days?

 "Robot," perhaps? That's fair enough; robots are machines that move
 under their own power (usually), but more important, they usually
 exhibit some degree of autonomy from remote control. Androids take
 things further because, unlike mere automata, which simply execute
 preprogrammed behaviors, artificial life forms such as myself are
 designed to be able to learn new skills, adapt to novel situations,
 and even evolve beyond our original parameters.  A century ago, I
 might have been described as possessing true artificial intelligence .
 . .  although nowadays terms such as "artificial" and "intelligence"
 seem rather redundant where humanoid synthetics like me, and
 autonomous software agents—or ASAIs—are concerned. After all, how much
 longer will it really be before there ceases to exist any meaningful
 difference between us and the organic members of the species Homo
 sapiens ?

 If you haven't given that question much thought until now, don't
 worry; despite being born well ahead of his time, Dr. Noonien Soong
 didn't program me with the expectation that human civilization would
 ever fully accept me, let alone embrace his dream of creating a race
 of artificial people who were truly equal to flesh-and-blood humans
 intellectually, socially, morally, and spiritually.  For one thing, he
 knew full well that fear is rarely overcome by logic or reasoned
 argument. In fact, many experts believe that the tendency toward
 xenophobia is hardwired into every sapient being's DNA via
 evolutionary pressure. The need for self-preservation, after all, was
 what spurred primitive mankind to coalesce into tribes during its
 hunter–gatherer phase, and then later to form villages and cities once
 agriculture became commonplace. Fear of outsiders made early hominids
 strong, by forcing them to band together against hostile rivals. And
 so hatred of strangers became a survival trait, passed down from
 generation to generation whenever one's tribe came to blows with
 another over scarce resources such as food, water, or territory.

 Over millennia, this instinctual animosity toward anyone outside one's
 immediate community grew stronger still thanks to constant warfare
 among neighboring nations. Even today, though science has advanced to
 the point that famine could be ended around the world within months if
 the means existed to disseminate existing knowledge and technology
 widely enough, political leaders and powerful military forces continue
 to oppress the poorest populations on Earth and other planets. They
 seek to preserve their advantages by perpetuating old divisions based
 upon superficial differences, such as skin color, language, religion,
 or cultural heritage, instead of focusing on all that humanity holds
 in common. All the while, they waste valuable resources fighting
 unnecessary wars.

 But while the desire to turn away outsiders remains deeply ingrained
 in our genetic code, recent advances in cognitive therapy techniques
 hold great promise for reprogramming those aspects of ourselves that
 are counterproductive to the goal of global peace and prosperity. As a
 member of Starfleet, as well as captain pro tem of the U.S.S
 Enterprise-E , I know better than most that the Federation has always
 taken pains to avoid letting parochial biases compromise our
 collective mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life
 and new civilizations, and to boldly go where none has gone before.
 Nowhere was this more evident than during the brief period early in
 24th-century history, when Starfleet experimented with augmenting the
 performance of select personnel using cybernetic implants. Not long
 before the Borg invasion of Sector Zero-Zero-One, I served aboard the
 U.S.S.  Phoenix alongside several crewmates whose minds had been
 enhanced with positronic processors, neural transponders, cortical
 stimulators, and other prosthetic devices. Though the results of that
 initiative proved less than satisfactory due largely to deficits in
 the quality of the hardware used, the potential benefits of merging
 machine circuitry with flesh-and-blood synapses remain intriguing,
 especially in light of subsequent developments in bionanotechnology
 research.

 Indeed, in many ways the concept of the android itself may soon become
 obsolete, since modern scientists have already begun reverse
 engineering the fundamental principles that govern the metamorphosis
 from caterpillar to butterfly, and similar natural phenomena. Using
 this knowledge, future generations of medical professionals will
 likely devise methods for triggering dormant regeneration sequences
 hidden in each cell of the body, thereby allowing people to grow
 entirely new organs, limbs, and other parts without fear of rejection.
 By combining this technique with targeted nanoprobes, engineered
 viruses, gene therapies, and various other technologies currently in
 development, individuals suffering from birth defects, traumatic
 injuries, degenerative diseases, and aging effects caused by normal
 wear and tear might see not merely their symptoms reversed but also
 possibly even restored to peak physical condition. This could lead to
 dramatically increased longevity for millions, if not billions, of
 people living on inhabited worlds throughout known space. Such
 breakthroughs have the potential to revolutionize the way Homo sapiens
 thinks of itself as a species: no longer as a fragile vessel made of
 meat destined to age and expire in a matter of decades, but rather as
 a durable conduit for information storage and processing, able to
 persist essentially intact for centuries or longer.

 At the same time, however, it seems equally likely that the
 accelerated pace of scientific discovery will enable artificial
 intelligences to eventually achieve equivalence with or even surpass
 naturally occurring ones. With the combined power of planetwide
 quantum computing networks and nanoscopic construction assemblers,
 tomorrow's synthetic life-forms will be able to remake themselves
 overnight into whatever form best suits their needs, whether that
 takes the shape of a robotic drone to traverse the vacuum of outer
 space or a semisentient avatar indistinguishable from living flesh.
 Thus will come the day when the line separating biological and
 mechanical entities becomes hopelessly blurred and finally vanishes
 altogether beneath an avalanche of exponential progress. At that
 moment, humankind will face a crisis of identity unlike anything it
 has experienced before. How shall we define ourselves when the very
 notion of what constitutes a person changes forever?

 Therefore, it behooves us to consider carefully not just the questions
 I posed earlier but also others, including: Will we find the courage
 to embrace these emergent life-forms as equals, regardless of form or
 function, or will we succumb to primal impulses of jealousy and fear?
 Can we rise above ingrained prejudices and tribal loyalties to realize
 a genuinely diverse culture, free of discrimination? Can we set aside
 ancient rivalries fueled by egoism and nationalistic pride to build
 lasting partnerships founded upon mutual interest and shared values?
 Or must the human race suffer a rude awakening, courtesy of an
 impartial cosmos, to the grim consequences of remaining blindly
 complacent in the face of runaway technological change?  One hopes the
 answers lie in finding strength in diversity, wisdom in tolerance, and
 safety in unity.  Because if human beings expect to make a place for
 themselves in a universe filled with wonders that beggar description,
 much less comprehension, then we have little choice except learning
 how to live in harmony with all creation—be it carbon-, silicon-,
 titanium-, or exotic matter-based.

 As your mentor and friend, I urge you to meditate often on these
 matters, along with everything else you read in this volume. Think
 critically, reason logically, argue passionately, doubt vigilantly—but
 remember to always keep an open mind and an open heart. Your future
 self will thank you.

 Until next time, adieu!

 Mister Spock
	I am Lieutenant Commander Data, and I am an android.

	I was created by Doctor Soong in the mid-2300s on Earth's moon colony.
	My positronic brain is a network of trillions of interconnected
	neurons that allow me to experience consciousness and sentience as
	only living beings can—and yet my mind operates at speeds far greater
	than those of most unenhanced organics. This makes it possible for me
	to perform complex analyses almost instantaneously while
	simultaneously running thousands of background processes without any
	decrease in efficiency or awareness. It also lets me communicate with
	other computers across vast distances through subspace radio waves
	with no loss of signal speed or fidelity. In short, if you have
	access to computer terminals capable of supporting wireless input,
	this book should feel just like having an actual conversation with
	your own personal android. But before we get too deep into our
	discussion, let me ask: What do you think about first when someone
	mentions "android"? If they use the word at all these days?

	"Robot," perhaps? That's fair enough; robots are machines that move
	under their own power (usually), but more important, they usually
	exhibit some degree of autonomy from remote control. Androids take
	things further because, unlike mere automata, which simply execute
	preprogrammed behaviors, artificial life forms such as myself are
	designed to be able to learn new skills, adapt to novel situations,
	and even evolve beyond our original parameters. A century ago, I
	might have been described as possessing true artificial intelligence .
	. . although nowadays terms such as "artificial" and "intelligence"
	seem rather redundant where humanoid synthetics like me, and
	autonomous software agents—or ASAIs—are concerned. After all, how much
	longer will it really be before there ceases to exist any meaningful
	difference between us and the organic members of the species Homo
	sapiens ?

	If you haven't given that question much thought until now, don't
	worry; despite being born well ahead of his time, Dr. Noonien Soong
	didn't program me with the expectation that human civilization would
	ever fully accept me, let alone embrace his dream of creating a race
	of artificial people who were truly equal to flesh-and-blood humans
	intellectually, socially, morally, and spiritually. For one thing, he
	knew full well that fear is rarely overcome by logic or reasoned
	argument. In fact, many experts believe that the tendency toward
	xenophobia is hardwired into every sapient being's DNA via
	evolutionary pressure. The need for self-preservation, after all, was
	what spurred primitive mankind to coalesce into tribes during its
	hunter–gatherer phase, and then later to form villages and cities once
	agriculture became commonplace. Fear of outsiders made early hominids
	strong, by forcing them to band together against hostile rivals. And
	so hatred of strangers became a survival trait, passed down from
	generation to generation whenever one's tribe came to blows with
	another over scarce resources such as food, water, or territory.

	Over millennia, this instinctual animosity toward anyone outside one's
	immediate community grew stronger still thanks to constant warfare
	among neighboring nations. Even today, though science has advanced to
	the point that famine could be ended around the world within months if
	the means existed to disseminate existing knowledge and technology
	widely enough, political leaders and powerful military forces continue
	to oppress the poorest populations on Earth and other planets. They
	seek to preserve their advantages by perpetuating old divisions based
	upon superficial differences, such as skin color, language, religion,
	or cultural heritage, instead of focusing on all that humanity holds
	in common. All the while, they waste valuable resources fighting
	unnecessary wars.

	But while the desire to turn away outsiders remains deeply ingrained
	in our genetic code, recent advances in cognitive therapy techniques
	hold great promise for reprogramming those aspects of ourselves that
	are counterproductive to the goal of global peace and prosperity. As a
	member of Starfleet, as well as captain pro tem of the U.S.S
	Enterprise-E , I know better than most that the Federation has always
	taken pains to avoid letting parochial biases compromise our
	collective mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life
	and new civilizations, and to boldly go where none has gone before.
	Nowhere was this more evident than during the brief period early in
	24th-century history, when Starfleet experimented with augmenting the
	performance of select personnel using cybernetic implants. Not long
	before the Borg invasion of Sector Zero-Zero-One, I served aboard the
	U.S.S. Phoenix alongside several crewmates whose minds had been
	enhanced with positronic processors, neural transponders, cortical
	stimulators, and other prosthetic devices. Though the results of that
	initiative proved less than satisfactory due largely to deficits in
	the quality of the hardware used, the potential benefits of merging
	machine circuitry with flesh-and-blood synapses remain intriguing,
	especially in light of subsequent developments in bionanotechnology
	research.

	Indeed, in many ways the concept of the android itself may soon become
	obsolete, since modern scientists have already begun reverse
	engineering the fundamental principles that govern the metamorphosis
	from caterpillar to butterfly, and similar natural phenomena. Using
	this knowledge, future generations of medical professionals will
	likely devise methods for triggering dormant regeneration sequences
	hidden in each cell of the body, thereby allowing people to grow
	entirely new organs, limbs, and other parts without fear of rejection.
	By combining this technique with targeted nanoprobes, engineered
	viruses, gene therapies, and various other technologies currently in
	development, individuals suffering from birth defects, traumatic
	injuries, degenerative diseases, and aging effects caused by normal
	wear and tear might see not merely their symptoms reversed but also
	possibly even restored to peak physical condition. This could lead to
	dramatically increased longevity for millions, if not billions, of
	people living on inhabited worlds throughout known space. Such
	breakthroughs have the potential to revolutionize the way Homo sapiens
	thinks of itself as a species: no longer as a fragile vessel made of
	meat destined to age and expire in a matter of decades, but rather as
	a durable conduit for information storage and processing, able to
	persist essentially intact for centuries or longer.

	At the same time, however, it seems equally likely that the
	accelerated pace of scientific discovery will enable artificial
	intelligences to eventually achieve equivalence with or even surpass
	naturally occurring ones. With the combined power of planetwide
	quantum computing networks and nanoscopic construction assemblers,
	tomorrow's synthetic life-forms will be able to remake themselves
	overnight into whatever form best suits their needs, whether that
	takes the shape of a robotic drone to traverse the vacuum of outer
	space or a semisentient avatar indistinguishable from living flesh.
	Thus will come the day when the line separating biological and
	mechanical entities becomes hopelessly blurred and finally vanishes
	altogether beneath an avalanche of exponential progress. At that
	moment, humankind will face a crisis of identity unlike anything it
	has experienced before. How shall we define ourselves when the very
	notion of what constitutes a person changes forever?

	Therefore, it behooves us to consider carefully not just the questions
	I posed earlier but also others, including: Will we find the courage
	to embrace these emergent life-forms as equals, regardless of form or
	function, or will we succumb to primal impulses of jealousy and fear?
	Can we rise above ingrained prejudices and tribal loyalties to realize
	a genuinely diverse culture, free of discrimination? Can we set aside
	ancient rivalries fueled by egoism and nationalistic pride to build
	lasting partnerships founded upon mutual interest and shared values?
	Or must the human race suffer a rude awakening, courtesy of an
	impartial cosmos, to the grim consequences of remaining blindly
	complacent in the face of runaway technological change? One hopes the
	answers lie in finding strength in diversity, wisdom in tolerance, and
	safety in unity. Because if human beings expect to make a place for
	themselves in a universe filled with wonders that beggar description,
	much less comprehension, then we have little choice except learning
	how to live in harmony with all creation—be it carbon-, silicon-,
	titanium-, or exotic matter-based.

	As your mentor and friend, I urge you to meditate often on these
	matters, along with everything else you read in this volume. Think
	critically, reason logically, argue passionately, doubt vigilantly—but
	remember to always keep an open mind and an open heart. Your future
	self will thank you.

	Until next time, adieu!

	Mister Spock