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• Nightmare Number Three
  ...of Stephen Vincent Benet.'' New York: Holt, 1935. Rpt. ''The Theme of the Machine'', q.v. under Anthologies. [[Category: Fiction]] ...a nightmare vision of a takeover by machines, with a strong hint that the takeover has already begun in the daylight world.
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• The Unborn
  ...r; see also for a clumsy juxtaposition of bureaucracy and computer machine takeover. (RDE, 17/09/94){{DEFAULTSORT:Unborn}}
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• The Reproductive System
  A send-up of, among other things, the theme of machine-takeover.[[Category: Fiction]]
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• Radix
  ...o apply the ideas of Ilya Priogine in depicting "''the auto-evolution of a machine intelligence''"—a very early use in SF of Priogine's version of chaos the
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• American Cyborg: Steel Warrior
  ...nd that as a compliment); Harrington refers to only "machines" and machine-takeover, not AI. (RDE, 26/09/06)
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• SPACE FLIGHT (vt SPACEFLIGHT IC-1)
  ...Naha,_Ed._The_Science_Fictionary]). Cf. and contrast with various computer-takeover tales, and with the Company and Mother in [[ALIEN (film)]].[http://www.cloc
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• Wolfbane
  ...es, with much use of the motif of mechanized environments. See for machine takeover and a group mind, mechanical "wombs," and an ultimately dangerous "womb-wor
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• Mirror up to Nature, The: Reflections of Victorianism in Samuel Butler's Erewhon
  ...er a Victorian attack on Darwinism nor early S. F. on the theme of machine takeover.
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• Dial F for Frankenstein
  Machine-takeover story in which ". . . the international telephone system reaches a stage of
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• Archer: "Legs"
  ...ular-culture relatives and in fear of cyborgs and robot- and other machine-takeover. As the ''Archer'' oeuvre develops, Archer's fears are realized in at least
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• American Cyborg
  ...nd that as a compliment); Harrington refers to only "machines" and machine-takeover, not AI. See for cyborgs, computer-rule, and the superimposition of the mec
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• Simpsons, "The Heartbroke Kid"
  ...pisode shows Bart destroying machines with an ax—puns on "Rage Against the Machine" are inevitable in on-line descriptions—and bringing home their loot to h
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• Erewhon; or, Over the Range
  ...s. 23 -25, "The Book of the Machines," for organism vs. mechanism, machine takeover, humans as part of a mechanized system, and foreshadowings of F. Herbert's ...tal Age'', William Morris's ''News from Nowhere'', E. M. Forester's "[[The Machine Stops]]," and the successful war for Merry England in G. K. Chesterton's ''
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• Westworld (TV series): "Journey into Night"
  ...eloping the theme of humanoid-robot/machine/cyborg rebellion and potential takeover (and potentially of far more than the Delos Westworld Park), of interest he
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• Existential Risk from Artificial General Intelligence
  ...is and (unintentional) suggestion of its significance for SF from computer-takeover works through [[Neuromancer|Cyberpunk]] and recent debates on AI: ...goodwill, so might the fate of humanity depend on the actions of a future machine superintelligence.
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• Homo Deus
  ...erred. It is also useful for extrapolations into a future of greater human/machine interfacing and/or upgrading human bodies (etc.), as in Bruce Sterling's [[
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• UNFRIENDED
  ...s incarnated on a Macintosh computer of some sort, and the takeover of the machine is chillingly similar to ordinary glitches and sophisticated hacking, where
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• More Than the Sum of His Parts
  ...rast Haldeman's ''[[Forever Peace]]'') and deals with the theme of machine takeover, as the cyborg prosthetics arguably "take over" the protagonist, and the pr
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• TRON: Legacy
  As with the original TRON, there's a computer-takeover motif, but the major importance of both films remains with the images of th ...e is the “Cyborg Manifesto” and really useful metaphorical explorations of machine/human interfaces when we need them?
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• Hyperion
  ...taining journey)—there is a space war beginning, and the threat of machine-takeover, apparently involving the possible triumph of one faction or another of AI' For developed human/machine interface issues, see esp. "The Detective's Tale: The Long Good-Bye" (326-4
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