{"id":12637,"date":"2014-12-08T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12637"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:03:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:03:26","slug":"movie-review-automata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/movie-review-automata","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: \u2018Automata\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a title=\"Posts by Dave Taylor\" href=\"http:\/\/sciencefiction.com\/author\/dave-taylor\/\" rel=\"author\">Dave Taylor<\/a> \u2014 SF Movie Review<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>At the brink of human destruction, with almost all of the Earth\u2019s population killed by a massive increase in solar storms, one city remains. It\u2019s humanity\u2019s last gasp, complete with artificial cloud cover created and managed by the primitive Automata Pilgrim 7000 robots. Millions of them. All working to keep the last vestige of humanity alive.<\/p>\n<p>In a nod to <a title=\"\u2018Prophets Of Science Fiction: Isaac Asimov\u2019 \u2013 Recap\" href=\"http:\/\/sciencefiction.com\/2012\/02\/16\/prophets-of-science-fiction-isaac-asimov-recap\/\" target=\"_blank\">Asimov<\/a>\u2019s Three Laws of Robotics, the millions of robots in this dismal future world are ruled by two unalterable, built-in security protocols: Robots are prohibited from harming any form of life and Robots cannot alter themselves or any other robots. But what if they started modifying themselves anyway?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencefiction.com\/2014\/10\/10\/movie-review-automata\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dave Taylor \u2014 SF Movie Review At the brink of human destruction, with almost all of the Earth\u2019s population killed by a massive increase in solar storms, one city remains. It\u2019s humanity\u2019s last gasp, complete with artificial cloud cover created and managed by the primitive Automata Pilgrim 7000 robots. Millions of them. All working [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64863,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12637\/revisions\/64863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}