As AI and automation rise into mass consciousness, it is worth revisiting this Michael Crichton film from 1984 which points out that if a tool is made universal, it will also be hacked by some dark actors.
Featuring Chaim Witz (Gene Simmons) as the evil bad guy in a truly menacing portrayal, the movie opens with a series of attacks by robots, which in this futuristic but stuck in 1980s format world have become ubiquitous at doing daily tasks and construction work.
Naturally, this shows us a different world where humans move alone among the machines and any betrayal by those machines could upend the entire social order. Featuring heat-seeking death drones, scurrilous hacking, and most of all a confrontation with the oblivion that easy living induces, the movie is not so much terrifying in visuals as unsettling in implication.
Like most Crichton films, the emphasis is on tight plotting that reveals the helplessness of humans against the twists of history written into technology, and offers a melancholic sense of unease for anyone considering the automated world about to descend upon us.
Tags: AI, cinema, michael crichton, runaway, tom selleck
nice moustache
I saw this as a tiny child, and I still vividly remember those damn jumping spider robots to this day!
The scene when one attacks his palm… yeek.
also featuring kirstie alley. her first on screen appearance was as a contestant on match game, when she was just an interior decorator from kansas.
She was awesome in this role. People do not understand what “modernity” is, but I simply answer: individualism. Her character fought back and it’s why that character was a heroine.
Is monarchy individualism? Is some people simply being better/higher than others “individualism”? Then what are you a closet commie-democrat?
Maybe if you would elaborate that some people are simply below the pyramid, and modernity is the showcasing of their illegitimacy… otherwise you’re just a whiner that’s never happy, regardless of what timeline you’re in.
Last sentence is retarded, since “stop civilization decline” is a specific intent not a generalized grievance.
However, let’s steelman and tackle the earlier questions:
No, it is based in the transcendent, which is recognition of the whole and the necessities of its “imperfection” to continue operating. Approximately 0.1% of the population can understand this.
Bell Curve issues are a fact of life, not an ideology, in my view.
I was far-Left for some years, then realized that what we were doing was not achieving what we said we wanted. I am a consequentialist and realist at the end of the day, and I think we need transcendental motivation, not that which is based in individuals whether gaining money or being “equal.” That being said, I think the collectivists are right about bourgeois individualism and the Democrats are right about environmentalism although all their methods are as usual a mixture of selfish, manipulative, narcissistic, perverse, insane, retarded, and ineffectual.