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To: shibumi
The enemies of free markets, open societies, free worship, public expression of faith and ultimately free thinking itself have always had a vested interest in reducing the perception of human intelligence to synapses, relays bit and bytes.

And how's that been working out for them? I recently re-watched the original Tron, on TV. I saw the movie in '82, and liked it, but watching it now had me wondering what I had seen in it. Not only was the technical jargon not used accurately - which, of course, I didn't know when I was a kid - but also the plot was about ten years behind the times. It's as if Disney were preparing 1982's kids for the 1975 version of Rollerball.

It might sound like I'm slagging on Disney, but I'm really not. I'm sure the folks there consulted the best experts...

Will humans be reduced to machines? More likely that AI machines will develop certain human characterisitics, like a dislike of being shoved around.

38 posted on 12/14/2010 3:24:31 AM PST by danielmryan
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To: danielmryan

“It might sound like I’m slagging on Disney, but I’m really not. I’m sure the folks there consulted the best experts...”

Tron was released during Disney’s “malaise” era, the period from Walt’s death in 1966 to the arrival of Michael Eisner in 1984. Not a bright period in the company’s history.


45 posted on 12/14/2010 1:59:27 PM PST by Strk321
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