Surrogates: Transhumanism Comes to the Movies

Surrogates is apparently about a world in which people live their lives virtually through robots, sort of a 3-D Second Life.  But then people start to be killed.

Hmm. If this movie is any good, it should provoke some interesting conversations about the futility and dangers of the utopian transhumanism.

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