Credit: Pixabay If you read, a few years back, my Book-To-Movie review of “Logan’s Run” , please don’t mistaken this post as a duplicate of it. What this post is concerned with is not the movie and book as a whole but with two evil AI characters in the story. “Evil” may be too sentimental of a word here because computers aren’t moral beings, they don’t have a conscience to make moral decisions. At least not yet. I’ll just use the word synonymously with “corrupt”, as in corrupt software. Isaac Asimov once said, "I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them." Neither do I fear them. I don't even fear the lack of them. I fear the overdependence on them. In other words, I fear society’s addiction to computer technology. And society has become addicted to it. Look at the people on a busy city sidewalk and at least every other person is either looking down at a mobile phone, are holding it up to their ear or wearing headphones connected to it. “Logan’s Run” foretells this o...
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