![]() ![]() ![]() In this way Adam- 2 is perfect for fans of Kirsty Applebaum’s Troofriend which also explores the humanity of sentience and how we treat machines, though in Chisholm’s hands we are taken to a much darker place within a post-apocalyptic world.Īs with Orion Lost, in Adam-2 there is a wealth of cinematic inspirations from Pinocchio to AI (itself a sentient robot Pinocchio retelling), iRobot, Bicentennial Man, Mad Max and particularly for me, I feel strong influences from the Terminator series meets Reign of Fire although here the dragons are actually robots. Sentient robot, artificial intelligence tales are not new, especially in the wake of the research over the last century into robotics and making smarter, useful and more humanoid machines, and we seem to have a universal human quality that makes us anthropomorphise and applying humanity to things whether they be balls of gas in space, or lumps of play dough, and indeed by applying human qualities to other things, we are actually exploring in a safe way what we are ourselves.Īdam- 2 is a remarkably beautiful tale in this vein exploring what it means to be human, or indeed what sentience truly means. An Image from Metropolis (1927) the pioneering and influential German expressionist sci-fi film by Fritz Lang ![]()
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