Is There an Android in your Future?

By Mike Kelly

The movie A. I. recently released and directed by Spielberg, the director of E. T. is the best depiction of “Androids” – man made people yet on the silver screen. Blade Runner and Cherry2000 were important movies also that showed us what the future of Android technology could be like, but both of them pale when compared to A. I.

A. I. is the story of “David” – an Android child who has been programmed to “love” his mother. And when I say love – I mean true love, love to the grave and beyond. So when David is forced to leave his family because of numerous accidents that happen in relation to the family’s real child, he goes on a quest to make his mother love him once again.

This is an interesting part of the movie, for instead of having the android destroyed, the mother abandons him in the forest, in which live thousands of other abandoned androids. This part of the movie is very believable, for even with today’s “Robodog” if it was to be abandoned like that, it would first look for a way to recharge it’s batteries and once that was accomplished, it would follow it’s dog programming and perhaps even try to find it’s old master once again.

In the movie abandoned “Realdolls” of the future – both male and female still practice the oldest profession and survive using the money they get from their customers. One interesting point made by a “Realdoll” of the future was “once you try Mecha (the movie’s term for an android) you’ll never want to have sex with an organic partner ever again” may actually prove true 50 years from now.

The special effects in the movie were very well done; androids that needed repair did look like robots with skin-like coverings. Another interesting aspect of the film was humans that hunted the abandoned androids for sport; they would hunt down the androids and kill them as a way of entertaining themselves.

Over all, I would have to say that this is the most important android movie since Bladerunner, it’s very well made and shows what the future of androids will be like in startling detail. This movie is a “must see” for any current or future “Realdoll” owner.

This movie was based on the 1969 (?) short story: “Super Toys Last All Summer Long.” A link to the original short story is provided.

Links for more information:

http://aimovie.warnerbros.com/  

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.01/ffsupertoys_pr.html  

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