[ExI] Favorite ~H+ Movies.

[Olga Bourlin]

From: "John K Clark" <jonkc at att.net>
To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 10:29 AM


> The only transhuman movie that I think of that was dead accurate in every
> respect was made nearly 40 years ago, it was called "The Forbin Project" 
> ... To top it off the AI now forces Forbin to help it design a successor 
> machine even more powerful than it is.

Ah, yes ... I remember that well!  The tagline for "The Forbin Project" 
could have been the same one they used for "Seconds" (a movie I saw as a 
teenager in 1966, which gave a slight boost to my perspective forevermore, 
as well as a new word to my vocabulary, i.e., "reborns"):

"What Are Seconds?... The Answer May Be Too Terrifying For Words!"  (Olga's 
note:  Oh, yeah?  Well, those people obviously never heard of "Second 
Life.")

more: "What if someone offered you the chance to begin again, with a new 
life that was organized to be exactly what you wanted it to be? That's what 
the organization offers some wealthy people..." (Olga's note:  Ha! Ha! Those 
stinkin' greedy wealthy people who live dangerously and just can't seem to 
heed the moral lessons imbued in fairy tales such as The Tale of the 
Fisherman ...):

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060955/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Fisherman_and_the_Fish

;) Olga