As we witness the rapid progression in artificial intelligence and automation all around us, these movies feel more relevant than ever.
It is perhaps difficult to imagine Jane Austen or DH Lawrence or Evelyn Waugh or even the Bronte sisters being as worried, but one in two of Britain's current crop of novelists fear artificial ...
Science fiction has been warning us for decades. But the most dangerous version of anthropomorphism is not a robot uprising. It is something quieter more intimate and already beginning.