Westworld at 50: Michael Crichton’s bleak vision of AI remains chilling
Aug 17, 2023
3 minutes
Welcome to Westworld! It’s a whole town from the 19th-century American west, immaculately recreated for your enjoyment and populated with hyper-lifelike robot inhabitants – an amusement experience so immersive Disneyland should close its mousy-eared gates in resigned humiliation.
There are saloons and brothels, and a bank perfect for a daring robbery. There’s also sex – wild, unhinged, avant garde sex – available on demand and to specification courtesy of the acquiescent locals. So acquiescent are the locals, in fact, that they’ll let you shoot them, too. Over and over again, while they
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