How a curious kid with a ZX Spectrum became an engineer who builds AI from scratch When I was a kid in the early '90s, every boy in my class dreamed about the same thing: getting a game console or a ZX Spectrum to play games. And when they finally got one — that was it. Hours of Dizzy, Boulder Dash, and Elite. Pure entertainment. I was different. Not because I was smarter or more disciplined — I just couldn't resist pressing the BREAK button. The moment everything changed I'd load a game from a