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Plug & Pray
Judith Malek-Mahdavi and Jens Schanze. 2009, 91 minutes. Germany, Italy, Japan, United States.
Fifty years ago, computers in their current form were the stuff of science fiction. Today, we rely upon them to control the electric grid, fly planes, store our collective knowledge, fight our wars, communicate with friends, and teach our children. In Plug & Pray, one man comes forward to doubt the wisdom of this path. Joseph Weizenbaum, whose work in AI begat the technology used in cruise missiles, urges us to reconsider our wholehearted embrace of technology before robots become as ubiquitous as iPods.
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