| Tele-robotic warfare currently exists, we call these | | | | Yes, the year is 2054 and everything we know about |
| war fighting devices "unmanned vehicles" and perhaps | | | | the real world has changed, where people live through |
| the most interesting to date are the UAVs used by | | | | their surrogate robotic androids, each one connected |
| the United States Military. Tele-robotic surgery | | | | through a telerobotic network. These robots |
| operations are now being used also by surgeons | | | | experience our daily lives and so too do we, but only |
| working on live patients half a world away. These and | | | | through them. |
| many more applications of tele-robotics will all come | | | | According to WikiPedia "Surrogates" was originally a |
| online well into the future. So, what will the year 2054 | | | | comic book series by Robert Venditti and in 2009 it |
| be like? | | | | was made into a full feature movie. |
| Ah, great you should ask, as I just saw one of the | | | | It is my contention that this is indeed the best Science |
| best movies of the year which makes reference to a | | | | Fiction Movie of 2009, and it would stand up against |
| possible future using all this technology and several | | | | any movie in this genre of the last decade. However, it |
| subsequent generations of advanced IT networks, | | | | appears many movie critics have not given the movie |
| robotics, android AI machines, and it's all taken to a | | | | the same high grade as I would. Why is this I ask? |
| whole other level of scalability, where the living room | | | | Well, I believe it is because folks have missed the point |
| gaming system becomes your real life. Not just for | | | | in the movie, and not allowed themselves to consider |
| some, for everyone - worldwide. | | | | the philosophical argument that it puts forth. |
| The new technology is billed as the safest way to run | | | | After all, this is more than just a science fiction flick, |
| a society and protect the citizens, and if a surrogate | | | | much the same way that Matrix was much more than |
| android is in a terrible accident, no problem, the human | | | | just an action movie. I'd recommend anyone who is |
| behind the controls is unharmed, while the robotic unit is | | | | into robotics, IT, computer centric networks, or military |
| replaced and repaired. | | | | tech go see this movie, as well as anyone with an |
| 2009 Film "Surrogates" starring Bruce Willis and Radha | | | | intellectual mind willing to do some stretching exercises |
| Mitchell, along with Rosamund Pike, James Cromwell, | | | | on such an interesting and probable future. Please |
| Ving Rhames, and Boris Kodjoe. | | | | consider all this. |