"The Singularity is Near" Movie

The brilliant inventor Ray Kurzweil creates a computer avatar named Ramona (Pauley Perrette). He raises her like a modern-day Pinocchio, and she gradually acquires consciousness. Ramona detects a secret attempt by microscopic robots to destroy the world, but her warnings are ignored by everyone because she is not recognized as a person. Her computerized nature lets her stop the robot attack but lands her in trouble with the law.  Written by Martine Rothblatt

Edited by Live Forever, 03 August 2007 - 10:22 PM.

The brilliant inventor Ray Kurzweil creates a computer avatar named Ramona (Pauley Perrette). He raises her like a modern-day Pinocchio, and she gradually acquires consciousness. Ramona detects a secret attempt by microscopic robots to destroy the world, but her warnings are ignored by everyone because she is not recognized as a person. Her computerized nature lets her stop the robot attack but lands her in trouble with the law.  Written by Martine Rothblatt

It sounds kind of like an interesting plot to me, depending on what direction they take it in. I suppose they had to make it a fiction movie as opposed to a documentary to appeal to more people. Interesting that Kurzweil is playing himself. (although who else would they cast to play him really?)

“In this film the human technology in the future is capable of injecting a human's intelligence into a remotely located body, a biological body.

It's not an avatar in the sense of just existing as ones and zeroes in cyberspace. It's actually a physical body. The lead character, Jake has his human existence and his avatar existence.” - James Cameron

STORY:
Set 200 years into the future Avatar follows the story of Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) an injured war veteran who reluctantly ends up on Pandora, a moon orbiting a giant gas planet. 

Pandora has a lush, tropical rain forest, is rich in biodiversity and is inhabited by the Na’vi, a humanoid race with their own unique language and culture.

Trouble arises when human colonists try and exploit the indigenous tribe, supervised by Selfridge a ruthless man who will stop at nothing to gain a foothold into the new world. A rift between races ensues with Jake eventually crossing over to the indigenous side, falling in love with Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) in the process and leading the Na’vi in an epic battle for survival.

Tony Robbins!

Tony Robbins!

The Ramona on Kurzweil's site which you can talk to is actually pretty lame :(

The Ramona on Kurzweil's site which you can talk to is actually pretty lame :(

Is it like a bot or something?

Perhaps it is selfish of me to think this way, but as long as the movie appeals to me, I don't really care if the masses like it or not.