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Thankfully for us, the future Repo Men imagines is very unlikely to happen, which makes it difficult to take its parable seriously.
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In order to make their cinematic universe work, the creators of The Matrix had to make their robots invulnerable. In reality, they wouldn't have won the war against humans.
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Avatar is an accidental tale of Singularitarian transhumanism with an environmentalist twist.
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Far be it from me to offer design advice to giant killer robot builders, but that's exactly what I'm going to do.
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A filmmaker trying to kick-start a controversy to market a biographical movie about Charles Darwin is finding it hard to get attention. But why?
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Hollywood is trying to make movies a little more scientifically plausible by asking real scientists for advice.
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When you use the word "plausible" when talking about movies, make sure it means what you think it means.