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A credit card. Its background is a 'code waterfall' effect from the credit-sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. On the right side is a cliche'd 'hacker in a hoodie' image whose face is replaced by the hostile red eye of HAL9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' Across the top of the card is 'Li'l Federal Credit Union.' The cardholder's name is 'I.M. Sucker.' Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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    The trudging circle of prisoners from Van Gogh's 'The Prisoners.' They have been separated from their background and colorized with bright reds and oranges. In their center is a giant capitalist ogre in a top hat, yanking a lever in the shape of a golden dollar-sign with one white-gloved hand and holding a dangling, upside-down prisoner figure in the other. Behind this tableau and to the left is an editorial cartoon version of Roosevelt as a 'big-stick' swinging trustbuster, taking aim at the ogre.
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    Inside: Three AI insights for hard-charging, future-oriented smartypantses; and more!

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    A science-fiction pulp illustration of a man with a swollen, bald head that has been cut away to reveal its contents. The man's face has been cropped at the bridge of his nose, leaving just the swollen, hollow head, cheekbones, and staring eyes, the last of which have been covered with blue ovals. The hollow head has been filled with the trudging figures from Van Gogh's 'The Prisoners,' marching over a grid of vacuum tubes from an early computer. The background of the image is the wiring from an early mainframe, snarled and dense.
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    An animation built around an image of dark, menacing storm clouds. Peeking through the clouds is a 386 motherboard, which slowly crossfades to a Code Waterfall effect from the credit sequence of the Wachowskis' 'The Matrix.' The animation crossfades back and forth in an endless loop. Image: Drahtlos (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Motherboard_Intel_386.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en -- cdessums (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monsoon_Season_Flagstaff_AZ_clouds_storm.jpg CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en

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