Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Pam (i) on July 07, 2001 at 10:58:49

In Reply to: Self replicating robots posted by Troy on July 05, 2001 at 20:40:32:

John W Campbell wrote about that in the 20's or 30's. Check his story "The Last Evolution" (or was it "final"?). Also wrote about benevolent robots in his story "Night". Several anime have also explored these concepts, Armitage III OAV's (hopefully they will get these on DVD someday) for example. Ghost in the Shell, touched on a few of these ideas as well, though the manga goes much deeper into the nature of consciousness and identity than the movie. Wouldn't surpize me if we have a black project somewhere trying to work up a rudimentary version of Keith Laumer's dinocrhome brigade... sentinent battle tanks (remember reading his story "The Last Command" in history class eons ago... I was always reading everying but what I was supposed to be reading).