Beat me to it. Referring to her as a "reporter," or, even more sickening, "journalist," frames her as a thing she hasn't been in decades, if ever. She's a PR flack.

I'm pretty sure it didn't save him.

If something vengeful and final should befall him, there's a non-zero chance that it'll be done by people--possibly plural--whose boss (or boss's boss, or...) "replaced" them with ChatGPT, or frankly any other of these hokum technologies being used to discipline work forces.

It doesn't even matter which technology was the pretext for depriving them of their livelihood. By the time people are ready to do violence, they are not, as a general rule, in a mood to make fine distinctions.

2001: A Space Odyssey
Colossus: The Forbin Project
Probably several stories in I, Robot

> I said data strings coming over a serial device. Wasn't the answer he was looking for

That's pretty much what I would have said. What WAS he looking for ?

The images are beautiful, but make no sense in the context of the movie. The idea of being computer generated in 1976 was clean lines and generated shapes. Why in the world would there be hair then a clear helmet over it ? It's not generating his version of Dune in 1976 , it's merging his style with the 1980's style of Tron and generating a Hybrid that looks wonderful, but is a narrative mess.

It's mostly kept alive by the Ramones cover of the 1910 Fruitgum Company song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I was wondering what other fossils were around that remembered the actual origin of the name !

"The Terminal Man" was exactly the first thing I thought of.

Hey Scientists -- how about stop using Michael Chriton novels as grant proposals ?

Thank you, I was thinking of that story as well ! I remember reading it in IASFM when it was first published.

This is not a new topic. For a bite sized intro, try starting with a look at how transfer pricing has been increasingly regulated over the years.

If Apple paid their taxes the IRS wouldn't have to shake me down for cash.