Rise of the machines
October 22, 2006 | Source: Financial Express
Hollywood is rabidly technophobic. Whether it’s robots, computers or genetically engineered beings, technology is out to get humanity.
It’s trying to enslave or kill us, or make us suffer on behalf of some corrupt corporate or government entity. Many of our favorite science-fiction films are part of a genre known as “tech noir,” stories that prophesy that the advancement of technology will have foreboding consequences for humanity.