Daily Mail — December 21, 2013

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The same day three other clips for the film were released, highlighting the futurist angle of the film, which appears to have been modeled after the thoughts of singularity theorist Ray Kurzweil.

Freeman in one of the accompanying trailers states: “For two million years human beings have evolved more than any other species in existence.

“But what if all our knowledge and all our achievements could be learned in mere minutes? What if humanities next step in evolution wasn’t human at all? What happens when artificial intellgience becomes self aware?” […]