MovieChat Forums > The Singularity Is Near (2012) Discussion > Other movies dealing with the/a Singular...

Other movies dealing with the/a Singularity?


I'm trying to rack my brains, for movies that have dealt with the/a singularity. Obviously and most famously, the Matrix comes to mind. What others are there?

reply

I found an upcoming low-budget indie film called only 'Singularity'. You can view the trailer from thoughtware.tv.

reply

There aren't many movies about the Singularity because first it is a pretty new concept almost unknown to the public just five years ago and second because the singularity and the post-singularity by definition is something out of the comprehension of a human v1

Just to give you an idea about the newness of the concept, in 2001 you couldn't finde one single hit about the technogical singularity on the net, I just checked archive.org for that.

And before someone points out the terminator movies: Even though skynet is an powerfull artifical intelligence it isn't outside human comprehension and skynet obviously didn't evolve himself, just its tools. If Skynet would have been the singularity it would simply have outsmarted instead of nuked the humans.

reply

[deleted]

[deleted]

[deleted]

Terminator is about Singularity

reply

No it's not.

👊 Privileged IMDb MOD without Beta Tester Badge! 👊

reply

A movie called "The Transcendent Man" is about Ray and his idea of the Technological Singularity.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

reply

The japanese anime movie Ghost in the Shell, directed by Mamoru Oshii, is a movie that portrays life and society at the cusp of a technological singularity.

There is also a 1970 movie called Colossus: The Forbin Project which takes a crack at smarter than human artificial intelligence. It's a somewhat dated movie (the A.I. communicates via scrolling text on a LCD display and dot-matrix printers), but should still be of interest to singularitarians.

reply

The matrix is the best movie by far because it actually got a LOT of things right. You might want to check out a video podcast from small company .. wjones that designed the stored purpose computer. It's end-to-end intelligent machine technology, agents and all ... the singularity is here

reply

[deleted]

The Singularity (2012)
Transcendence (2014)


If you're hungry, try a piece of your friend!

reply