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Published: Aug. 6, 2019, 7:45 a.m.

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James Cameron\u2019s first film! And Arnold is amazing! The possibility of casting O.J. Simpson as the T-100. Harlan Ellison lawsuit.

\n\n Robots \n\n

The thawing of the AI winter of the 70s. Robots finally showing up in our lives and in the workplace. Terminator bootstrapping. Robotics and machine learning.

\n\n Skynet \n\n

The possibility of AI becoming \u201cself-aware\u201d or \u201cconscious\u201d and whether we even know what those things really mean. Big data feeding skynet.

\n\n Terminators \n\n

Jacked-up and oiled beefcake \u201cinfiltration\u201d models. Franco Columbu. Robotic Ahhhhhnold blending in. The \u201crule of cool.\u201d Feeding and maintaining a terminator\u2019s \u201cliving tissue.\u201d

\n\n Persistence of information \n\n

The persistence of human knowledge after the nuclear apocalypse. The fragility of magnetic storage media. Storing your data under a mountain. The weakness of encryption over time.

\n\n Time travel \n\n

How to not sound crazy when telling people in the past that you\u2019re from the future. Meatball time travel. Using the \u201cliving tissue\u201d time travel rule to transport large weapons into the past. Stuffing a whale or elephant. Realizing that maybe (probably), no one (not even SkyNet) has the slightest clue what they are doing with the time travel.

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