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MILESTONES: Al-Qaeda suspect arrested; former Mob boss convicted; Pop Rocks inventor dies; Crick remembered by Watson...
...here is Spooner (Will Smith), investigating the death by defenestration of an inventor (James Cromwell) days before his company's new line of "automated domestic assistants"--home androids--is to be unveiled. Because he's the standard cop-hero sociopath and also because he just can't stand robots, Spooner suspects everyone. Dammit, he suspects anything modern. As the U.S. Robots boss (Bruce Greenwood) says, "You would have banned the Internet simply to keep the libraries open." Spooner focuses his skepticism on a prototype droid named Sonny, the only creature in the room with the inventor when he died...
...sophisticated robots that have an itch to be human. Yes, readers of future past, I, Robot - "suggested by" Isaac Asimov's pioneer collection of short stories published in 1950 - is another gloss on Blade Runner. The cop here is Spooner (Will Smith), investigating the death by defenestration of an inventor (James Cromwell) days before his company's new line of "automated domestic assistants" - home androids - is to be unveiled. Because he's the standard cop-hero sociopath and also because he just can't stand robots, Spooner suspects everyone. Dammit, he suspects anything modern. As the U.S. Robots boss (Bruce...
Perpetuating Pilates Romana Kryzanowska learned the body-conditioning method from its inventor and has taught it ever since...
...Setting the Record Straight Not the Inventor • Our MILESTONE on the death of Hollywood technical wizard Edmund DiGiulio referred to him incorrectly as the inventor of the Steadicam [June 21]. Although DiGiulio developed the Steadicam and popularized its use, it was invented by Garrett Brown...