Word: robots
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...polar icecaps and flooded many coastal cities, submerging them in water. Human beings have come to not only depend upon computers for survival, but also come to befriend machines with artificial intelligence for friendship. Directed and written by Steven Spielberg, A.I. specifically tells the story of one boy robot (Haley Joel Osment) and his quest to becoming what movie teasers have described as "something more." Many people look forward to A.I.'s June 29th summer release either because it is Steven Spielberg's next movie or because it would have been Stanley Kubric's last. Spielberg's screenplay was based...
Calkins is one of 5,000 Americans who have shelled out $2,750 for a special edition Sony Aibo robot dog, which makes you understand a little better why he ends his e-mails with the tag line: "Silicon shall replace carbon. The revolution will be automated." When he was a kid, Calkins owned a German shepherd, but that was before he discovered computers. Now he works at an Internet firm, dotes on his pet robot and in his spare time serves as president of the Robotics Society of America...
While Aibo is a hit in Japan among companionship-starved salarywomen, it sells best to techie guys in the U.S. That doesn't surprise Calkins. "Most normal Americans are still afraid of machines," he says. "But the Japanese are far more comfortable letting robots into their homes." For her part, Fionne seems pretty relaxed about the hyperkinetic puppy scuttling about her turf - even when Gibson begins flashing his angry red eyes. While Calkins whips a remote control out of his trench coat and frantically fingers the buttons, trying to appease his irate robot, Fionne yawns, stretches out and settles down...
...Japanese-made video game. Jung, who graduated from a top university in Seoul last year, now runs a website for a computer magazine. But whenever he has spare time, he sits down with his PlayStation or his computer and plays video games -- Dragonquest 7, Black Matrix Cross and Super Robot War are among his favorites. When he feels like watching some animation, one of his top choices is a series by a Japanese team called Gonzo. It was shown on television in Japan, but he watched it over the Internet in Seoul. He also liked the Gatekeepers and the Vandred...
...with its Japanese, Canadian and European partners in the space-station project, made it clear it didn't want Tito to fly, claiming he would be in the way of the real spacemen, who will be working on the still unfinished orbital complex--installing a brand-new Canadian-built robot arm, for example, that just went up on the shuttle...