INI100H1 Lecture Notes - Chris Pine, Impressment, Lux
Document Summary
Think ai, meets terminator: salvation, with a little bit of the running man and. This is a story first and foremost about the relationship between two brothers (twins in fact, although not identical) and secondarily about the love between a father and son. The story is set in the far distant future, on planet that feels like earth, yet is clearly not. Humanity has been amongst the stars for hundreds of years and they have found there are a lot of other races out there and none of them are friendly. Almost the entire industry of humanity is war, a war to protect itself from all the things that go bump in the dark night of the universe. In this world mankind has turned to one of it"s longest partnerships, the partnership of man and machine. Humans have mastered the art of creating artificial intelligences. For the most part these intelligences are advanced con- structs living inside clearly robotic shells.
