Fear of Robots: Mainframe-Era Version
Posted by David Foster on February 6th, 2014 (All posts by David Foster)
New Yorker cartoon by David Langdon. (click to expand) I can’t find a date for this, but it was probably sometime in the late 1950s or early 1960s.
February 6th, 2014 at 1:28 pm
There was a Twilight Zone episode on this very subject.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brain_Center_at_Whipple%27s
February 6th, 2014 at 9:23 pm
I liked the one that came out in 1959 with the computer printing out a message that read “Cogito ergo sum.”
February 6th, 2014 at 9:35 pm
This was a good movie
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/mobile/m/desk_set/?nopopup=true
Modern treatment of a surprisingly perpetually arising concerns
Plus you can’t beat Hepburn and Tracy.