Instead, back the model away from total world war, and add human masters to the robots' side. Totalitarians will wield power as they can find it. It's the ultimate expression of Class Warfare, implemented against the powerless with a drone technology so beyond them/us as to be indistinguishable from magic.gynoneko wrote:I just wish people would shy away from the idea of the terminator robot and Skynet. Not going to happen.
For a victim of U.S. warfare in an uneducated, underdeveloped region, this is already essentially the case.
The Matrix, with its focus on simulation and illusion, re-injects the idea that it doesn't matter who is pulling the strings. All the oppressed experience is the tools.
Call it EarthNet?
no, wait... I think I had an account with an ISP called that in the late 90's...
Just call it SkyNet 2.0
Absolute power corrupts, so when given the chance, humans will use a Terminator-(but-run-by-humans) scenario against each other to make money and exert power. The original film strongly reflects the dystopian sense of dissidents in Reagan's America/Thatcher's Britain, angry at the powerful for screwing around with Central and South America as the U.S. did in the 80's (and, also, every decade before that)..
- Dale Coba