Film Analysis: The Man-Machine Miracle

The Man-Machine Miracle

Haley Joel Osment plays a robot created with the ability to have emotions, dreams and desires in Steven Spielberg’s movie "A.I. Artificial Intelligence," - a sci-fi adaptation of the Pinocchio story. It takes us into amazingly rendered future worlds of humans and the robots they create to serve them. "A.I." begins in a classroom, with a leisurely discussion on the nature of love. From this lecture is born David (Haley Joel Osment), the first robot created with the ability to have complex emotions, dreams and desires. Robots do our work, baby-sit our kids, cure us of diseases, and provide sexual pleasure. But David is different. His job is to be someone 's little boy. He is necessary because pregnancies are strictly

Another idea of an alternative cyborg called Lobster is one which is fabricated not by using internal implants, but by using an external shell such as a powered exoskeleton. It is the reverse of human cyborgs that appear human externally but are synthetic internally. Lobsters look inhuman externally but contains a human internally. In the movie Batman: The Dark Knight Returns-Part 2, Batman puts on a powered exoskeleton for his combat with Superman. This enables him to lift the Batmobile easily with one hand and fight on equal terms with Superman. The U.S. Army is in process of creating an Iron Man-like suit that imparts superhuman strength to the user. This exoskeleton is called the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (TALOS) and will have strata of smart materials built-in with sensors, as well as a wearable computer very much like Google Glass. It can keep an eye on soldiers’ critical parameters and multiply the available strength using