Fritz Lang’s Metropolis – A prophecy delivered?

Fritz Lang’s Metropolis is a ground-breaking film that delves into several profound themes and messages he chose to comment on, in 1927. As well as being a cinematic masterpiece of it’s day, the film offered commentary on potential societal conditions, based on the evidence that he perceived was available and he felt pertinent at the time.

An image showing a human interrogator on one side and a computer screen on the other.

Turing Test

Alan Turing suggested that instead of debating whether machines could think in the human sense, we should focus on whether machines could imitate human behaviour well enough to be indistinguishable from a human during interaction.

Self-Transcendence