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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=12956