After the singularity scientist Will Caster (Johnny Depp) is shot by an anti-robot extremist, Caster's wife, Evelyn, manages to upload her dying husband's mind to the core of an existing artificially intelligent machine. There, the combined intelligences grow exponentially to the point where it learns to manipulate the world's power supplies, means of telecommunications, the FBI and, of course, his wife. Evelyn -- persuaded by the machine, or out of love for her husband, or b

Deep-seated fears of technology have long been a subject that has repeatedly surfaced in the imaginative realm of sci-fi writers--from Asimov's iRobot to Star Trek's Ulimate Computer, The Terminator's Skynet, The Matrix's simulated reality, Battlestar Gallactica's cylons, Robocop's cybogs, and Transcendant's uploaded consciousness, just to name a few. But as Stephen Hawking once remarked, "Today's science fiction is often tomorrow's scientific fact." Many believe it is inevit