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Re:Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers by stevenwoo on Monday March 17, 2025 @10:18PM (#43395094)
Second Variety, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Variety I've commented this before but it is closer to Terminator than the Harlan Ellison story IMO.
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Re:Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers by BurningFrog on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @11:23AM (#43400542)
Yeah, that was the one. Really burned itself into my mind.

The movie was OK, but you can only get shocked once.

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Re:Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers by stevenwoo on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @01:49PM (#43402405)
Similar but reverse, I felt unfortunate to have read the novelette after watching Terminator because part way in the story I thought - this is almost all of the AI/self replicating autonomous robot points of the Terminator movie just without the time travel. The movie addition of time travel adds a bit of hope to an otherwise totally bleak story resolution.
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Re:Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers by rstuart4133 on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @10:26PM (#43407713)
Haven't read the book, but I did see "Screamers". Wikipedia says: "Future Imperfect: Philip K. Dick at the Movies, writes that the film is more faithful than most other adaptations".

I can't comment on whether that's true, but the movie still haunts me. Odd, since as Wikipedia says "it received a mixed critical reception and failed at the box office". There was nothing mixed about my reception of it.

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Re:Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers by BurningFrog on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @05:40PM (#43405484)
It's pretty wild that PKD imagined AI controlled combat drones in 1953, and 70 years we'll soon have them.
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