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Years in the making, Justin Leach's Eden is alive on Netflix as a four episode short series featuring a plucky heroine and her family of robots. Made with plenty of love and backed by an all-star cast, Nick and Jean-Karlo find out if Eden sticks its landing.
Photo Credit: Netflix In addition to the aforementioned trope of a future where humans annihilate themselves and their robot servants survive, there are other common science-fiction tropes that abound in Eden - are robots better than humans? Can robots care and suffer? Or are they unthinking automatons? Can we feel empathy towards robots? How will a child raised by machines, all alone in the world, think? Are Earth and its myriad creatures better off without humans? Or, will reviving humanity doom the now-flourishing planet once again? Eden asks the audience these questions, but never take...
Netflix's EDEN anime is a hybrid 2D/3D animation with a story that will be satisfying to both parents and their kids.
2 weeks ago NEW YORK CITY – As more frontline workers opt to quit minimum wage jobs that could expose them to COVID, Company CEOs say they are furious that people would simply stay home and “cash benefit cheques” now, instead of in 2-3 years when they figure out how to replace everyone with robots. “We made a deal, COVID or no COVID” said Matthew Hutton, owner of numerous McDonald’s franchises. “You sign the employment contract, you show up for work every day until I arbitrarily decide to fire you because corporate has developed a new machine that can do your job for free.”