Talk:Android (robot)/Archive 1

message: In fact, quite a few authors have choosen to use android to imply an artificial organic being, (at least partly). Data, in fact, seems to have been originally written as more organic than mechanical, as evidenced by the early episode in which he became drunk. Later, I think the writers decided that the special effects for Data would be cooler if he was basically a machine with lots of pretty flashing lights inside. ;-)
I can't remember off hand, but wasn't the artificial guy (Ash?) in the movie Alien called an android?
Someone above mentioned the Replicants in the movie "Blade Runner." In fact, the movie was based on a novel written by Philip K. Dick called "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep".
The movie A.I. was based on a short story called "Supertoys Last All Summer Long," written by Brian Aldiss. As I recall, the movie choose to call them something like "mechinoids" (?), but in the original story, the central character David is discribed as an android, by which he seemed to mean an artificial, organic creation.
Just commenting. AdmN 04:18, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mechanical vs. Organic 

message: I removed this paragraph from the article:
:Androids might be used for entertainment and conversation rather than repetitive work, because robots and machines are better suited for work. Androids may replace animatronic characters in films and theme parks. Androids in science fiction are usually smarter, stronger, and more handsome than living people. Scientists are developing faster and smaller computer chips that will one day equal and exceed the memory capacity and speed of the human brain. Hair-thin metal muscle wires now exist that can lift thousands of times their own weight. Artificial Cyberskin is soft and flexible like human skin. These technologies will be used in the real-life androids of the future. 
There may be a place for this information, but it currently reads like someone's POV, ie: this is someone speculating on their own theories, rather than making an encyclopedic contribution. Also, CyberSkin turns out to be a trade-marked word, used by an adult toy manufacturer. I've rewritten the Cyberskin article to reflect this fact. func(talk) 16:00, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speculation 

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