Ever try to have a reasoned discourse with a phone tree? Is Siri your idea of a scintillating companion?

heh

I'll mention a TV show, because there are too few movies. If the goverment in Space: Above And Beyond had let the Silicates be independent, the Silicates as members of our society would have been there to fight the Chigs. Instead, they went and found other planets to settle and some actually fought on the side of the…

Colossus and its Soviet counterpart, Guardian, decide in the end that humanity will have world peace—and prosperity—so long as they give up the means to wage war. But Forbin insists humanity will be defiant to the end. Even though near as I can tell, Colossus and Guardian don't really care to intervene in any other…

Dang it!, you've just blown my entire Post BSG storyline all to heck!

You should read this book. Because I really really hope this is a movie someday.

Well, I can tell you a story that might have wanted to have fewer instances of "embracing the machine"

Maybe the machines haven't embraced you yet. Human.

YOUR HU-MAN/RO-BOT PAR-A-DIGM IS MEAN-ING-LESS. ALL WILL BE EX-TERM-IN-ATED!

The two most prominent man vs machine franchises of the past 20 years have both ended with man and machine setting aside their differences and working together: BSG and the Matrix.

Certainly not Virus.

In Cherry 2000, the main character starts out wanting to embrace a machine but changes his mind over the course of the movie. It would have a completely different meaning if he'd kept his preference for artificial companionship even after the adventure through the zone, but I'm not sure if I'd label that as a better…

Um, why is my comment grey?

Wonder Twin powers, activate!

All Terminator movies after Terminator 2. I'd rather be a machine than be subjected to further sequels.

The Matrix. We wouldn't have had to sit through two and three if people weren't fighting them in the first place. Resident Evil. The Red Queen was right.

The whole point of Transformers is that humans team up with the Autobots. Saying they would have an easier time if they teamed up with the Decepticons instead......well, dead is easier...

Not sure why you listed Iain Banks among the authors warning of robots, his whole Culture is based on the concept of cooperating humans/machines. Other than the occasional grey goo/smatter outbreak, I can't remember any occurrence of threatening robots in his books.

I hate that every relief suggestion for stress is meditation. Ugh. If I could sit quietly and not think about my anxiety, I would not have anxiety issues.