Akira

The film begins early one morning with Dr. Alex Harris overseeing the completion of Proteus IV, an artificial intelligence system incorporating organic elements (specifically RNA molecules) in a "quasi-neural matrix", and having the power of independent thought. After returning home to his entirely voice-activated, com...puter-controlled house, Harris is working in his basement laboratory when he is approached by his estranged wife, Susan, a child psychologist by profession, who tries to discuss with him his decision to move out of the house. Their conversation ends in an argument, however, when Susan accuses Alex of becoming dehumanised by his obsession with the Proteus project. After Susan has gone, Alex phones his colleague Walter Gabler and asks him to shut down the access terminal to Proteus that is in his home laboratory. Alex demonstrates Proteus to executives of ICON, the company which funded its development, explaining that the sum total of human knowledge is being fed into the system. The visitors are astonished to learn that, in less than four days, Proteus has developed a theoretical cure for leukemia. The group visits the Dialogue Room (decorated with Chinese furnishings), where linguistics expert Dr. Soong Yen is reading Chinese history to the computer. In a demonstration of Proteus ability to speak, Alex asks it what it thinks of what it has just heard. Proteus answers, but the subtlety of its response is mildly disturbing and Dr. Soong severs the audio/video link.

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Max Renn is the president of CIVIC-TV (Channel 83, Cable 12), a sleazy Toronto UHF television station specializing in sensationalistic programming. Displeased with his station's current lineup (which mostly consists of softcore pornography), Renn is on a seemingly endless quest for something that isn't so "soft" and wi...ll "break through" to a new audience.

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In 1977, Voyager II was launched containing a gold phonographic disk with a message of peace and inviting visitors to come to the planet Earth. Aliens, discovering the probe, send a small scout vessel. However, instead of being greeted by its human hosts, the U.S. government shoots down the alien craft. Crashing in Wis...consin, the alien, as a blue ball of energy, finds a lock of hair of the deceased Scott Hayden in a photo album and uses it to clone a new body in the likeness of Scott. The Starman then sends a message to his people that the environment is hostile and requesting extraction in three days at landing area one.

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