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...such things sound familiar to you, or has the world advanced so exponentially these hundred years that our common sights are fossils? Futurologists guess about your life, drawing pictures of robot doctors, television sets that one can talk back to, cars that park themselves. There must be more to you than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Time Capsule: A Letter to the Year 2086 | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

...auction should bring in somewhere between $15 million and $30 million, which will help pay off the fair's $216 million deficit. Some of that cash will come from Expo 86 officials themselves. Expo Ernie, the stainless-steel and acrylic computerized robot that served as the fair's mascot, was acquired by Expo President Jim Pattison. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fairs: Expo Artifacts: Going, Gone | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...Terminator turned out to be a memorable action picture, with a truly scary villain--a rare treat these days when real life is more frightening than the movies. If you've seen it even once, you remember at least two scenes: the one early on in which the killer robot from the Future picks up his high tech weaponry at a corner "Sport Shop" so heavily equipped it could be a member of NATO; and the sequence half-way through in which the Body lays waste to a police station, killing at least 30 people in a futile attempt...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: Cameron's Little Camera of Horrors | 10/17/1986 | See Source »

...spectacular sequence, a C3PO-style robot is reconstituted into a rock band -- the leg becomes a guitar, the torso a drum set -- and Jackson kicks into high gear with his We Are Here to Change the World, an up-tempo anthem. Laser beams shoot into the theater; orange light splashes off the rear wall. It is quite a workout. Or, as Producer Lemorande notes, "it's a very dense 17 minutes. It's like desserts. They're so small because they're so rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Go to the Feelies | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

Plan Nine from Outer Space, also Robot Monster Call for Schedule...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? | 8/15/1986 | See Source »

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