As I've written here before, science fiction is terrible at predicting the future, but it's great at predicting the present. SF writers imagine all the futures they can, and these futures are processed by a huge, dynamic system consisting of editors, booksellers, and readers. The futures that attain popular and commercial success tell us what fears and aspirations for technology and society are bubbling in our collective imaginations.
There were a lot of SF movies produced in the mid-eighties, but few retain the currency of the Terminator and its humanity-annihilating AI, Skynet. Everyone seems to thrum when that chord is plucked – even the NSA named one of its illegal mass surveillance programs SKYNET.
Terminator est dans votre poche | Comme un bruit qui court
RT @MarinGontier: Très très bon @jerezim sur @franceinter "asservir les êtres humains" t800=tel…
You'd think when choosing the name of a top-secret surveillance program, the National Security Agency would be careful not to choose a name synonymous with artificial intelligence gone rogue and nearly destroying humanity.You'd be wrong.
"On est tous les Sarah Connor de cette histoire" @jerezim
"notre Kyle Reese, il s’appelle Edward Snowden," @jerezim
"La technologie du terminator, c'est celle que l'on subit aujourd'hui." @jerezim
"L’histoire de Terminator c'est la capacitation de Sarah Connor" @jerezim