Thursday, April 2, 2009

Urban Bots and Droids, etc.

Data, C-3PO & other Android concepts.
http://www.starwars.com/databank/droid/r2d2 ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-3PO ,
http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/Terminator_Wiki ,
http://paralleluniverse.msn.com/photos/movies/tempting-terminators ,
http://terminatorsalvation.warnerbros.com ,
http://www.youtube.com/user/SkynetResearch ,
http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/terminatorsalvation
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(film)#Plot ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner#Plot ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphaville_(film)#Plot_summary
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicant#Organic_or_Machine.3F
{One of the most prominent examples of Replicant-like robots in modern culture are the humanoid Cylons on the Sci-Fi Channel series Battlestar Galactica. Blade Runner was acknowledged as an influence on the series. Actor Edward James Olmos, who stars in the series, also co-starred in Blade_Runner. Tricia Helfer, who plays the main humanoid-Cylon character "Number Six" on the series, was having trouble determining how to play a humanoid robot when production began, so co-star Olmos advised her to watch Blade Runner. Helfer has stated that it greatly informed how she approached the role. The human resistance on Cylon-occupied Caprica even referred to the Cylons as "skin jobs," the slang term for Replicants from Blade Runner, in the late season 2 episode "Downloaded". Episode writer Bradley Thompson inserted the line hoping science fiction fans would notice and enjoy the reference: the term met with popular reception by fans, and subsequently many characters in the next two seasons of the series regularly refer to the humanoid Cylons as "skin jobs".}
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicant#Replicants_in_popular_culture
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminator ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_(Aliens)#Depiction ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robot_(film)#Plot ,
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R._(Rossum%27s_Universal_Robots)#Overview ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_robots
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimo ,
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2004/12/65885
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http://www.thx1138movie.com
Queen - Machines (Back to Humans)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05s5thkcHsw&feature=related ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THX_1138 ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_of_the_World_(album)#Cover
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil ,
http://transcendentman.com ,
http://singularity.com/themovie