Singularity Cinema.

• Author: Feeney, Matthew
• Position: Briefly Noted - Transcendence - Movie review - Brief article

In Transcendence, Johnny Depp plays Dr. Will Caster, a scientist working on a sentient computer when he is assassinated by a Luddite terrorist organization. To preserve Caster after his bodily death, his wife Evelyn uploads what she believes to be his consciousness to a quantum computer. The movie, directed by Wally Pfister, attempts to grapple with the idea of a coming Singularity, the point where artificial intelligence converges on and exceeds human intelligence.

Evelyn and the sentience she uploaded travel to a facility where nanotechnology development allows for seemingly miraculous...