Curated playlist
Fiction about artificial intelligence
- Assassin's CreedAssassin's Creed began as a Prince of Persia sequel with the prince cut out.
- Terminator (franchise)The Terminator franchise began with a sale that cost the buyer a single dollar. Before the first film existed, James Cameron sold the rights to Gale Anne Hurd, who would later become his wife. He attached one strict condition: he had to be…
- The Matrix (franchise)The Matrix franchise began in 1999 with a film that cost $63 million to make and earned over $460 million worldwide. That success grew into four feature films, plus animation, video games and comics set in the same universe. Joel Silver…
- Ghost in the ShellGhost in the Shell is a Japanese cyberpunk franchise that began as a manga by Masamune Shirow. Its 1995 animated film made a lasting impression on the creators of The Matrix. The Wachowskis showed it to producer Joel Silver and told him,…
- Battle Angel AlitaA doctor digging through a garbage dump finds a living cyborg head and torso. He names her Alita, after his dead cat.
- OverwatchOverwatch was built from the pieces of a cancelled game called Titan.
- R.U.R.The word robot first appeared in a 1920 Czech play, R.U.R. Within a few years it had spread to thirty languages.
- Megami TenseiMegami Tensei reached Japanese players on the 11th of September 1987, when Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei launched on the Famicom. The game grew out of a science-fiction novel series by Aya Nishitani, and the franchise took its name…
- Serial Experiments LainThe anime Serial Experiments Lain begins with a dead girl's email.
- Sword Art OnlineSword Art Online opens with 10,000 players logging into a virtual reality game for the first time on the 6th of November, only to discover that they cannot log out. The year is 2022, and each player wears a helmet called the NerveGear,…