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"I kind of take it for granted that our great-grandchildren will regard us as a sort of precursor species. That they won't think of us as human and if we could see them, we probably wouldn't think of them as human either."
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![]() In the film, a love triangle comes to exist between a man, his home computer, and the girl next door.
Set in San Francisco, a small home computer becomes self-aware when a massive download from a mainframe caused it to overheat, and champagne is poured on top of it to cool it off.
Finally, Edgar accepts that human love is not for him, and he checks out by sending a large current charge through its modem, around the world, and then back to itself. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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'...it was all composed of tiny, identical cubes, carefully laid to form a tilelike surface.'
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