Forbidden World (1982)
Directors: Allan Holzman
Actors: Jesse Vint, Dawn Dunlap, June Chadwick
Run Time: 77 min.
On planet Xarbia, an experimental life form, Subject 20, has been created by an elite group of researchers in hopes of preventing a galactic food crisis. However, when Subject 20 ....
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The Food of the Gods (1976)
Directors: Bert I. Gordon
Actors: Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker
Run Time: 88 min.
Morgan and his friends are on a hunting trip on a remote Canadian island when they are attacked by a swarm of giant wasps. Looking for help, Morgan stumbles across a barn inhabited by ....
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Empire of the Ants (1977)
Directors: Bert I. Gordon
Actors: Joan Collins, Robert Lansing, John David Carson
Run Time: 89 min.
Sleazy scam artist Joan Collins tries to sell phony real estate deals down in the Florida everglades. What she and her unsuspecting buyers don't know is the area has been taken over by....
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Demon Seed (1977)
Directors: Donald Cammell
Actors: Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Gerrit Graham
Run Time: 94 min.
Scientist Alex Harris, doing research on artificial intelligence, is working on a special kind of computer. This computer grows more and more powerful and eventually rapes the scientist's wife....
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The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Directors: Robert Wise
Actors: Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olson
Run Time: 140 min.
A U.S. Army satellite (Scoop VII) falls to earth near Piedmont, New Mexico. The recovery team experiences difficulties as it becomes clear that the satellite has performed its intended ....
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The Invasion (2007)
Directors: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Actors: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam
Run Time: 99 min.
While returning to Earth, the space shuttle explodes and the fragments bring an alien virus that recodes the human DNA. In Washington, the psychiatrist Carol Bennell observes the modification ....
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Gattaca (1997)
Directors: Andrew Niccol
Actors: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Gore Vidal
Run Time: 106 min.
In the not-too-distant future, a less than perfect man wants to travel to the stars. Society has categorized Vincent Freeman as less than suitable given his genetic make-up and he has ....
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THX 1138 (1971)
Directors: George Lucas
Actors: Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley
Run Time: 86 min.
George Lucas adapted this, his first film, from a short he made at University. THX 1138, LUH 3417, and SEN 5241 attempt to escape from a futuristic society located beneath the surface ....
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Alien³ (1992)
Directors: David Fincher
Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance
Run Time: 140 min.
After escaping from the alien planet, the ship carrying Ellen Ripley crashes onto a remote and inhabited ore refinery. While living in the ore refinery until she is rescued by her employers....
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Avatar (2009)
Directors: James Cameron
Actors: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver
Run Time: 162 min.
In the future, Jake, a paraplegic war veteran, is brought to another planet, Pandora, which is inhabited by the Na'vi, a humanoid race with their own language and culture. ....
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We know At some point in the 21st century, uploading becomes possible. A number of individuals upload and make many copies of themselves. Meanwhile, there is gradual progress in neuroscience and artificial intelligence; at some point, it becomes possible to begin to isolate individual cognitive modules and connect them up to modules from other uploaded minds.
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Why do I need to know arithmetic when I can buy time on Arithmetic-Modules Inc. whenever I need to perform arithmetic tasks? Why do I need to be good with language when I can hire a professional language module to articulate my thoughts? Why do I need to bother with making decisions about my personal life when there are certified executive-modules that can scan my goal structure and then manage my assets so as to best fulfill those goals?
Nick Bostrom
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