X-Message-Number: 12956
From: "John Clark" <>
Subject: Bicentennial Man 
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 11:00:06 -0500


Some of out "far out" ideas are starting to leak out, even into the conservative

pages of The New York Times. I haven't seen the film so I don't know if it's any
good but I have read the review by Stephen Holden of Bicentennial Man and he

really hated the movie, the reasons are very interesting. He compares it to a 
very
bad Star Trek installment and sneers at its " warm, fuzzy, self-congratulatory

humanistic vision, nothing in the universe beats being a flesh and blood 
mortal".

Holden also says  "The possibility of a machine claiming to have human qualities

seems increasingly likely. What's not so likely is that a robot, in seeking to 
be

human, would embrace mortality." I couldn't have said it better myself but I 
don't
think I would have found it in the mainstream press five years ago.

       John K Clark       

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