Hollywood is offering up the next entry in the Planet of the Apes franchise, which launched with the 2011 reboot Rise of the Planet of the Apes. In Rise, a drug designed to cure Alzheimer’s disease turns out to be fatal and wipes out most of human civilization, in the process spurring a race of genetically advanced apes. On the surface, the premise of the film is an absurdity only Hollywood could have devised: machine gun-slinging, horseback-riding, genetically evolved Apes out to hunt down humans. But this seemingly ridiculous idea stems from a fear which has been lingering in our collective subconscious for centuries. It’s a theme which even today creeps into much of our ongoing conversation about technology – specifically robotics, AI and synthetic biology – that we find it as an undercurrent in the news daily. Will we be destroyed by our own creations? singularityhub/2014/07/11/technological-fears-and-the-latest-entry-in-the-planet-of-the-apes-franchise/
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 03:41:40 +0000
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