Haven't seen the movie. This raises the question of whether we are turing ourselves into the superbots. That is the brave new race for the brave new world is the well fragmented, consumerist automaton--organic, conditioned robots. Note that the web with it's potential for narrowly delineated interest groups and micro-marketing is often treated as the prototype of the critical tools for social and psychological functional fragmentation. That is, BRIN-L and its analogs allow us to belong to sectarian, parochial, unidimensional communities based on functions. Instead of being "multidimensional" we become heaps of unidimensional functional consumption modes that in the aggregate emulate a meaningful human condition. > David's spectacular failure with Monica points out how far wrong his > creators are, how divorced from reality their view of human nature really > is. On the other hand, the variety of other robots we see shows that > David represents just one more step in a progression of self-alienating > acts of creation--robot toys, robot servants, robot lovers, robot > children...the ultimate conclusion is robot humanity, the superbots at > the end of the movie. Utterly alien from us, yet perhaps happier because > their desires can be clearly defined and satisfied according to fairly > basic formulae. > > Like I said, that's my initial reading...I think I want to watch the movie > again and see if I think it holds up. > > Marvin Long > Austin, Texas > > Nuke the straight consumerist wildebeests for Buddha!
