"I get enough of a workout walking around here," she said, nodding to the vast plane of whizzing, flashing and screaming slot machines that surrounded her.
"You are underground in a tiny space, holding a metal machine that weighs 50kg, surrounded by rock.
Since the way we speak often has nothing to do with the reality that surrounds us, machines are -- and will continue to be -- puzzled by the metaphorical nature of human communications.
There, surrounded by cornfields and white faces, he enters a machine that grinds up young men in its merciless search for the next Sammy Sosa.
Listening to him, the younger man is reminded of his own father in a hospital, permanently catheterized, other tubes conducting liquids to his body hooked up to machines that surround his bed like unknown relatives.
Kanzius has developed a machine that uses radio waves and nanoparticles to destroy cancer cells in a way that leaves the surround tissue spotless.
Millennials are the first cohort to be born into an obesogenic world - from birth, they have been surrounded by cheap, highly processed, high-calorie tempting foods, and an ever-present marketing machine that promotes them.
With all the media hoopla surrounding Twitter, we forget that it is simply another channel for communications, not unlike the telephone or the fax machine that came before it.
"All we have is this anecdotal evidence that these machines are harmful and it doesn't look like the government are taking this issue seriously, especially with the stigma that surrounds problem gambling," he said.
