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Harold and Baud
As technology becomes smaller, smarter and more ubiquitous, questions about machine sentience and artificial intelligence are as common today as inquiries about long term climate change or global economic forecasts — we know it’s coming, but when? Of course science fiction is where a lot of these anxieties get worked out and recent films like [...]
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Tagged 1980's, A-ha, artificial intelligence, Bud Cort, Dire Straits, Electric Dreams, machine intelligence, Michael Jackson, PC, Pinecone Computer
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Purple Rain at 30
Purple Rain — the record and the film — came out thirty years ago this month and Prince recently reunited with Apollonia to celebrate the date. Prince was a musical prodigy who transformed himself from “the new Stevie Wonder” into a genre blurring phenom who had as much impact on the culture of the 1980′s [...]
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Tagged 1980's, Appollonia, Bruce Springsteen, documentary, film, Michael Jackson, Prince, prodigy, Purple Rain, record
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