METROPOLIS 1927: Tower of Babel, A.I., Immortality, 99% v.s. 1% - 2026 A.D.

EARLY PREDICTIVE PROGRAMING: This classic film shows the pattern of thought of - MAN. His longing to create a Utopian society or "Heaven on Earth" like God we will create man in our image, and that will be A.I. machines. We currently are teaching A.I. constantly all the facescans, CAPtcha's, e-mail's etc. etc. A.I. will soon meet and surpass humans on the evolutionary scale. Then we will merge with this and become - HOMO DEUS - no loger HOMO SAPIENS!

In the somewhat distant future (some editions say the year 2000, others place it in 2026. The city of Metropolis, with its huge towers and vast wealth, is a playground to a ruling class living in luxury and decadence. They, and the city, are sustained by a much larger population of workers who labor as virtual slaves in the machine halls, moving from their miserable, tenement-like homes to their grim, back-breaking ten-hour shifts and back again. Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction drama film directed by Fritz Lang, and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang from von Harbou's 1925 novel of the same name.