“The future” is that beautiful place where everyone seems to be dreaming about. The future has been a perfect spot for the movies industry. The constantly human’s need to know what our actions and consequences would bring, have been the base for movies like Her, Silent Running, 2001:Space Odyssey and Stranger Days. Putting all the beautiful visual effects and futuristic graphics aside, movies is the best way to travel in time because they show us a visual representation of an upcoming future. Directors like Stanly Kubrick, Douglas Trumbull, Spike Jonez and Katryn Bigelow have used movies as a tool to represent topic such as the future of artificial intelligence, nature, singularity and mind alterations. Loved by sci-fi fanatics and respect by philosophers, a Sci-Fi movie is a window to enjoy the endless
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Instead of looking comradeship between his three fellow astronauts, Lowell is more drawn towards acquiring three drones as his friends. Lowell named them Huey, Dewey and Louie, and programed them to help serve his self-appointed mission to save nature. The film shows how Lowell uses his tree robotic friend to maintain the forest as well as his own sanity. By programing them to respect nature, both Huey and Dewey are being shown as Lowell’s sidekicks and protectors of the dome. In the reprograming processes, Lowell also shows them how to play poker. The director wanted to show how robots cannot only work as a tool, but also can be our friends. In the current present, the idea of creating relationships with automated machines is not new, but in 1972 was fascinating and opened numerous possibilities to upcoming movies. Huey, Dewey and Louie were the inspiration for the famous Star Wars droid, R2-D2. Silent Running gave us an excellent idea in how not just robots, but technology itself is being shaped to fulfill humans
Instead of looking comradeship between his three fellow astronauts, Lowell is more drawn towards acquiring three drones as his friends. Lowell named them Huey, Dewey and Louie, and programed them to help serve his self-appointed mission to save nature. The film shows how Lowell uses his tree robotic friend to maintain the forest as well as his own sanity. By programing them to respect nature, both Huey and Dewey are being shown as Lowell’s sidekicks and protectors of the dome. In the reprograming processes, Lowell also shows them how to play poker. The director wanted to show how robots cannot only work as a tool, but also can be our friends. In the current present, the idea of creating relationships with automated machines is not new, but in 1972 was fascinating and opened numerous possibilities to upcoming movies. Huey, Dewey and Louie were the inspiration for the famous Star Wars droid, R2-D2. Silent Running gave us an excellent idea in how not just robots, but technology itself is being shaped to fulfill humans