Times:  What saddens you?

            Rukowski:  Many people know that as a young woman I was a 
roboticist in Allen Hobby's lab.  This was shortly after
Cybertronics 
had lured him away from A.I.T.  We were working on a marvelous 
project, a secret project.  We were trying to create an A.I. that 
could feel—that could love and grow and live as fully as a human 
being can live.  It was intoxicating work.  My bench-mate and Allen 
and I would work until eleven or midnight or two in the morning every 
day and love doing it, because we thought we were going to change the 
world. . . .

            Forty years later, that bench mate is dead, murdered by 
ARM fanatics.  Allen Hobby has become a corporate shill, trading his 
brilliance for Cybertronics' thirty-nine pieces of silver.  And if my 
work in the field has had any impact at all, it has been to allow 
generations and generations of living, thinking beings to feel that 
much more acutely how they are enslaved and despised.

            It's a legacy that ought to sadden everyone.  It 
certainly grieves me to the core.