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The History of the Electronium

The Electronium is a machine that was meant to write songs. Raymond Scott began building this thing in the 1950s and it was a kind of mechanical, early artificial intelligence that actually worked. Michael Jackson used to watch it work. And nobody now can figure out how to get it to work again.

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