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.

Rise of the Machines

June 23, 2004 | Source: Wired

The film I, Robot takes place in Chicago in the year 2035, just as the NS-5 automated domestic assistant comes to market.

The all-purpose personal robot is expected to have such wide appeal that it will shift the ratio of humans to bots from about 15 to 1 to 5 to 1. But the release is tarnished when an NS-5 named Sonny is accused of murder.

Detective Del Spooner, played by Will Smith, is assigned to track down the killer. As with all of Asimov’s stories, the movie revolves around his Three Laws of Robotics, a set of rules governing android behavior.

The central mystery: How could a robot programmed not to harm a human actually commit murder?

Rise of the Machines

June 8, 2004 | Source: TIME

Visionaries are making robots that can perform music, rescue disaster victims and even explore other planets on their own.

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