RT @Sayf_SF: Terminator Studies / @terminatorstud

Le bracelet du Terminator via @affordanceinfo

The news that Google has purchased a company that makes running robots for the military has prompted the more nervous to see parallels with sci-fi movies such as The Terminator, with its dystopian vision of a world run by remorseless robots with self-conscious intelligence.

According to a recent YouGov poll, 13 percent of IT decision makers believe technology could destroy the Earth, with the leading causes of our demise including the prevention of evolution (74 percent), military and warfare (66 percent), artificial intelligence (44 percent), and environmental issues (38 percent).

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.

According to "Terminator Genisys: Resetting the Future," the Cyberdyne offices are based on the Oracle corporate offices located in Redwood City.

RT @samim: #deepdream Terminator

Financial Times reporter and Twitter user Sarah O'Connor is not, in fact, robot-fighting Sarah Connor from the Terminator series.

The secret abortion politics of the ‘Terminator’ franchise

RT @icracnet: The Terminator question: Scientists downplay the risks of superintelligent computers via @pcworld