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 [The Scrawl] Analyzing a Short Story: Ryan Harty (Part I): Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” (Blade Runner), “Supertoys Last All Summer Long” by Brian Aldiss (Artificial Intelligence: A.I.), Isaac Asimov’s “I, Robot,” Carlo Collodio’s often-adapted literary classic, “Pinnochio.” What each of these stories accomplishes - as does Harty’s - is present an emotional element to the story which evokes true consideration for how the story can be related to modern life. Taking science fact and twisting it into science fiction isn’t anything new, but the genre’s ability to drive home theme through its specific storytelling makes it a genre that captures imagination and drives many young readers to read on.

 [Red Earth] History of Robots: Later fears, misshapen, accidents and even novels concerning artificial life forms will deal with this so called “Frankenstein complex”. In the mind of mankind robots are bound to cause accidents or other imaginary mischief.

 [Ppfesmerita's Weblog] Confabulous robots: Tthe article was mostly a mishmash: computers imitating neural activtiy, artificial lifeguards, Turing tests, video games, Roombas, automatic phone-answering systems and the dream of putting a robot in every home. But sure enough, there was one guy working on an electronic butler that could “hold a coversation with its master, or order more pet food.”

 [Tim's Robots] Robots Will Have Rights: The report claims to have looked extensively at current trends into to gauge the situation 50 years from now.One of 270 forward-looking papers sponsored by Sir David King, the UK government’s chief scientist, specifically looks at the value and rights robots could have in the year 2056. One paper covering robot rights was written by a management consultancy with assistance from an opinion research organization.

[sffaudio] New Releases - An Audible.com downpour of audiobooks: Eventually, space probes reveal that the barrier is artificial, generated by huge alien artifacts. Time passes faster outside the barrier - more than a hundred million years per day on Earth.

[Imaginary Futures] NEW YORK PROPHECIES: THE IMAGINARY FUTURE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Yet, its pavilion was dedicated to promoting the sci-fi fantasy of thinking machines. Like the predictions of unmetered energy and space tourism, the imaginary future of artificial intelligence distracted visitors at the World’s Fair from discovering the original motivation for developing IBM’s mainframes: killing millions of Russian civilians.

[Digital] Japanese Developing Sex Robots: Isaac Asimov and others have cited this as the most probable use. Not only have science fiction authors put these futuristic predicts forth but Hollywood has as well in several movies such as “A.I.

[Kadyn] Download Men of Action Boxset Download - Watch Men of Action ...: Don’t expect much of a connection to Isaac Asimov’s classic science fiction stories; I, Robot, the action movie, isn’t prepared for any ruminations on the significance of artificial intelligence.

[Tezuka: Marvel of Manga] Tezuka in English: Astro Boy: A mad scientist, in a fit of passion, creates artificial life, only to come to despise his creation and reject it. The creature is set adrift in the world, alone and unloved, endowed with superhuman strength and only the fuzziest idea .

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