When I interviewed Wired for War author PW Singer last March, he told me that the preconditions for a successful Terminator-type uprising are not in place. As computer development accelerates, however, those preconditions become way more possible.
“Now you see me, now you don’t. Gundam thinks he will, but I know he won’t!” Muhammad Ali taunting his 35-ton robotic opponent, Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan in a match that occurred secretly in 1975.
In the war between Man and Machine, kittens are a toss up of allegiance.
Not all Man/Machine battles are bloody. They can beat us in Chess. And they can beat us in math. But the drum machines and synths, they can’t beat us yet.
11-year-old Mitchell Anderson had just finished practicing in the batting cage and was gathering balls in his helmet. Unfortunately for him, there was one ball left still rattling around in the machine.
Caprica 6 is proving to be a difficult adversary. Hotness seems to be a factor, so for the final round we are going to even out the odds a bit. No Yul Brenner is not hot…but his backup is.
The out-and-proud machine fetishists over at io9 have compiled a list of the 15 deadliest robot sirens ever imagined, from Blade Runner‘s replicant Pri to Austin Powers‘ gun-boobed Fembots. [io9]
Not surprisingly, Megatron easily took another heavyweight round over Marvel’s Sentinel. So we are upping the ante in Round 3 with a robot so horrifying, just thinking about it will give you nightmares for weeks.
When Terminator 2 came out, I remember reading that Edward Furlong (the barely pubescent kid who played John Conner) was just picked up by a talent scout at the local shopping centre. At the time, I was so jealous, I started hanging out at the local shopping centre on the off chance an Australian talent scout would pick me up to star in a movie about man-killing aliens. It never happened.
Survival Research Labs has been re purposing hardware into giant, deadly displays of machine power since 1978. They say the plank hurling Pitching Machine is their most dangerous made during all that time.
