25 years ago, this scene from Steven Spielberg’s ‘A.I.’ predicted the collapse of objective reality

The sci-fi epic depicted a futuristic world where digital oracles tell information-seekers exactly what they want to hear. Sound familiar?

Humanoid robots are not very punctual. Sci-fi movies have been warning of their impending arrival for decades, and yet clankers with faces so far remain stuck on the fringes of the AI era.

Of course, not all sci-fi films promise too much too soon, only to end up looking silly when the future becomes the present. By setting his 2001 opus, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, in the comfortably distant 22nd century,........

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