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--- Quote from: KvP on 31 Aug 2010, 21:41 ---Why don't you just read Frankenstein?
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I probably will at some point, but I am specifically looking for mechanical things. Pretty much all of this is research for a project I want to do. Frankenstein is along the same lines, but he's flesh and not metal.
Buttfranklin:
--- Quote from: Linds on 31 Aug 2010, 10:58 ---I watched A.I. years ago, I'm not going to rewatch it as I remember what I need to know and yes, the last half sucked. And I've already seen I, Robot, but have not read the stories. Mostly I'm more interested in the literature than the films, but remakes aren't always the same as their literary counterpart so sometimes it's important to look at both.
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Read I, Robot, then. Also the rest of the Robot series: Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, and Robots of Dawn.
This is the guy who coined the term robotics. He knows how to do robots.
HiFranc:
I recommend two books (more information on these books on page 14 of the Recommendations thread):
Society of the Mind by Eric L Harry
also
Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
I'm trying to think of more.
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If you've seen The Matrix then I would advise watch Animatrix. Animatrix is a collection of animations that give the backstory to the Matrix. We see the reason why the machines got so p*ssed off with humanity.
satsugaikaze:
--- Quote from: ackblom12 on 01 Sep 2010, 06:28 ---wut, Frankenstein was a fantastic novel!
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Yeah but when you're expected to read through it multiple times over the course of a few months, memorise lines and explore deep and meaningful topics to just condense it into 1100 words of drivel to write in a 40min section of an exam
Your appreciation of the thing diminishes somewhat after a few reads.
Scandanavian War Machine:
I read Frankenstein for the first time last year and while I did it enjoy it, I found the plot to be so absurd on a fundamental level that I couldn't really take it seriously.
Old books that try to involve science inevitabley lose alot of their power when we have since learned better, you know? Not always, but usually.
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