Number 5 is alive
One of my childhood favourite movies must be “Short Circuit” from 1986 (IMDB). During a military demonstration of a group of weaponised robots, lightning strikes “Number 5” causing its circuitry to go haywire, giving way to MalFunCtioNs in the system. The robot starts skip its instructions when it is told to go back inside the…
Human After All
For a long time now, whenever I was asked to enter a few words next to my name on profile-pages, i.e. on Twitter, LinkedIn, I entered “Human After All”. The title of a song by Daft Punk. In their Electropop Musical “Electroma” Daft Punk, two human men, posing as robots, try to become human. If…