Terminator Salvation: Our Romance with Robots
Terminator Salvation, the fourth installment of the Terminator franchise, hits theaters today. The film takes place in 2018, an apocalyptic world where humans are outnumbered by machines? hulking robots, the size of skyscrapers, with a penchant for wiping out mankind. And don’t even get us started on SkyNet. But what about year 2009? For a reality check on human-robot relations, we are joined Sherry Turkle. She is a professor of Science, Technology and Society and MIT, where she is also the founder and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. She is an author of numerous books, among them is her latest title, Simulation and Its Discontents.
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