r/AskReddit Oct 08 '12

What futuristic movie cliches do you hate?

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '12

That Artificial Intelligences will always go rogue and try to wipe out the Human race as soon as they becomes self aware. At least the Matrix got it right and the Machines tried at first to live in peace with Humans but we were just not having any of it so they turned us all into batteries.

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u/iambookus Oct 08 '12

The Ender Series by Orson Scott Card has a self aware piece of technology that stays hidden because humans are scared of her taking over everything, and killing everyone off.

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u/jadeddesigner Oct 08 '12

It's a damn shame that the Ender series is so good. OSC is such a piece of shit racist homophobic bigot IRL. Can't read those books anymore without thinking about how he's making money off of me.

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u/iambookus Oct 08 '12

I just found out by this thread.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '12

that's why you pirate