Artificial Intelligence”
... It is a time when natural resources are limited and technology is advancing at an astronomical pace. What you eat is engineered; where you live is monitored; and the person serving you is not a person at all. It’s artificial. There is a robot for every need, except love. Emotion is the last, controversial frontier in robot evolution. Robots are seen as sophisticated appliances; they are not supposed to have feelings. But with so many parents not yet approved to have children, the possibilities are inconceivable. Cybertronics Manufacturing has created a solution. His name is David. A robotic boy, the first programmed to love, a Cybertronics employee and his wife, whose own terminally ill son has been cryogenically frozen until a cure can be found, adopt David as a test case. Though he gradually becomes their child, with all the love and compassion possible, a series of unexpected circumstances make this “life” for David impossible. Without final acceptance by humans or machines, and armed with his supertoy teddy bear and protector, David embarks on a journey to discover where he truly belongs, uncovering a world in which the line between robot and machine is both terrifyingly vast and profoundly thin. In “A.I.”, starting a family is subject to strict governmental restrictions. Mankind has started to rely a lot more on mechanical devices ‘mechas’ to take over very simple jobs. Jud...