Episode 161 Judgement Day - Lessons From Sci-fi That We're Not Applying Today

Today is the original Judgement Day as stated in the 1984 film Terminator. Check out the original trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k64P4l2Wmeg To celebrate we have a little listening episode covering a summary of the Terminator series, Isaac Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics and the current challenges with AI. Vocabulary Wipe out humanity - phrasal verb - to 'wipe out' means to make something extinct, or no longer exist Leading a resistance - to be in charge of a fight back, often against a larger or more dangerous force, sometimes against a fascist force. Spin off - a book or a movie featuring characters, storylines, or worlds featured in other books or movies. For example The Avengers movies and Spiderman or Iron Man. Robotics are still in their infancy. - we use 'infancy' to in this way to describe things that are just beginning, often technologies. Logistics - the movement of stuff Prosthetic - the limbs created for people who have lost a limb through illness or war.