The 8 Most Common Sci-Fi Visions

September 27, 2007 D. H. McKee

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(And Why They’ll Never Happen)
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#3. A Full-Scale Robotic Uprising
Defining Features:
Robots who have gained consciousness and are therefore instantly intent on killing all humans; some uncertainty as to who is a robot and who is a human; casual death threats made in calm, emotionless robo-inflection; claims that humanity is either â..imperfectâ. or â..a scourge that must be cleansed;â. those wicked glowing laser eyes; hands that are also guns; hacking into mainframes; the powering down of a core, destruction of a power cell or other euphemism for the removal of batteries.
Why it Will Never Happen:
There’s almost a kind of hopeless optimism hidden here. Besides the whole uprising thing, it still implies that mankind was able to, with hardware and software, create a race of beings that are actually way better than humanity. Think about that the next time Windows Vista stops and asks you if it has permission to run a program you just freaking told it to run 4 seconds ago.

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