Artificial Intelligence: AI
(Artificial Intelligence: AI)
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The effect of greenhouse finally had reasons of the efforts deployed by the humans to prevent the melting of the ice caps. In the middle of 21st century, coastal cities of the world have been flooded. In the artificial intelligence era, the "Mecha", the androids created by man to his quasi perfected image live in harmony with the "Orga", the organics, Men. In the most advanced civilizations, births have been regulated. By virtue of the law, a couple has not the right to have more than one child.
Monica and Henry Swinton had the chance to have a son, Martin. But this one is caught by a serious sickness and in the hope of a very uncertain recovery, he's cryogenically frozen. Ahead the distress of Monica, Henry, who works for the Cybertronics group offers her a new type of Mecha, the first robot child gifted with emotions. If Monica decides to adopt him as her son, he won't be able to belong to someone else and in case of desertion he will have to be destroyed. Thus goes his programming.
Despite difficulties rising to Monica ahead this child that is not really one, she accepts to adopt him. David, who sees in Monica his real mother is a flawless child who only requests his love. Some months later, a important even happens. Martin leaves his coma in a miracle. Swinton are once more the happiest in the world. But Martin is very jealous and sees in David an enemy it is necessary to get rid of. Well involuntarily, David's strongs and exceptionel feelings are running against him. David becomes dangerous for Martin. Lacking a few to drown him, Monica and Henry have no other choice to separate from him. Rather than to return him at Cybertronics where he will be put out of order, Monica gives him a chance and abandons him in the nature. David does not understand what is arriving to him. He does not understand why his mother abandoned him and he's living a real drama. The robot child although sees that love he's giving to his mother is not reciprocal.
David is captured by a Mecha hunter who treks the territory in search of lost Mechas for his "flesh festival", a terrible festival where robots are tortured and slaughtered just for fun. David gains the audience's sympathy and escapes from destruction. He makes a friend, a mechanical gigolo named Joe he escapes with. His feelings are such that he is going to implement everything to find the blue fairy he's been listening carefully to the Pinocchio tale his mother told him and thinks that if he'll find the blue fairy she'll turn him into a real boy to be loved by his mother.
A track leads them to the end of the world in the gobbled city of New York. There David meets his conceptor. The former learns him that he'll never become a real boy. David is only a robot and several "David" models are already ready to be put in service. David is shocked. Using the amphibious helicopter that led him in the city and continuing his quest with relentlessness, he discovers underwater the blue fairy so wanted...
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The blue fairy is just a statue belonging the sceneries of an itinerant feast on the theme of Pinocchio. David prays and prays again in order that she exhausse his will... His prayers will last 2000 years long until the day when alien people discovers him, the little robot, the last witness of the existence of the human race now disapeared.
Ahead his insistence to become a real boy, and thanks to the alien technology, David can finally find back Monica, recreated from the present DNA in a wick of hair of the woman that David preserved. Despite the limited duration of the technological exploit, David lives the greatest day of his life. After so many years, his quest ends for a day long; the last one. He is the Monica's loved son.