THE TERMINAL MAN

THE TERMINAL MAN. Mike Hodges, dir., prod. script. USA: Warner, 1974. George Segal and Joan Hackett, stars. Based on the novel by M. Crichton (q.v. under Fiction).

Brain implant that includes a microcomputer is designed to prevent blackouts and unremembered violence by a computer expert (Segal) by providing contravailing electrical stimuli, apparently to the (or a) pleasure-center in the brain. Stimuli prove so pleasurable to the brain as to function as operant conditioning, soon training the patient's brain to undergo constant attacks. See for imagery of mechanized environments, surveillance, technocrats at work and play, and the mechanizing of a human being.

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