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...Stanley Kubrick project directed by Steven Spielberg, A.I. is a loose update of Pinocchio. This time it's a robot that wants to become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tale Of Two Pinocchios | 10/13/2002 | See Source »

...Stanley Kubrick project directed by Steven Spielberg, A.I. is a loose update of Pinocchio. This time it's a robot that wants to become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tale Of Two Pinocchios | 10/13/2002 | See Source »

...mostly come when he has toyed with acoustic material. Mutations, the album most similar to Sea Change, has several songs that sound exotic, clever and conspicuously weird, as if Beck were doing an emotional experiment rather than summoning actual feelings. ("Puritans stare, their souls are fluorescent/The skin of a robot vibrates with pleasure" went one particularly opaque Mutations lyric.) But Sea Change feels distilled from real tears, and the sonic intensity is helped in part by Beck's physical maturation. His singing voice has got significantly deeper. "Before we recorded," says Godrich, "we listened to Mutations, and his voice sounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beck Gets (Kind Of) Blue | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

...hated it? I thought it was great. Pre-gaming Dean Nye’s “lay down the law” speech was the highlight of my week. I’m not sure why, but during the speech I found her wide shoulders and robot-like voice very erotic, sexually...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dormroom Dialogue | 9/26/2002 | See Source »

...first they had to learn some hard lessons about those difficult creatures known as human beings. A robot is essentially a computer with a body, but iRobot wanted to market its robots as household appliances. And it turns out people have higher standards for appliances than they have for computers. Appliances have to be cheap, simple and reliable; nobody is going to buy a $2,000 vacuum cleaner that requires a Ph.D. in engineering and has to be rebooted twice a day. Leaving the ivory tower for the iRobot team was a culture shock. "We had to learn about plastics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maid To Order | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

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