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Your comment reminds me of Harlan Ellison's work. I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream is a short story that deals with an AI that extracts revenge on its former masters by enslaving and torturing them. The Outer Limits episode The Human Operators has a similar theme.

"Stream of Consciousness" is the Outer Limits episode you refer to.

I think you mean this http://www.theouterlimits.com/episodes/season1960/ 6040.htm episode of The Outer Limits which coincidentally features Dabney Coleman (McKittrick, custodian of WOPR in "War Games")

As predicted here...

I personally think this is just an attempt to get Microsoft Janus on televisions. I imagine that watching IPTV will be much like the title segment of "The Outer Limits" television show.

Are we the message?

That's exactly the idea from The Outer Limits : Double Helix, and sequel, The Origin Of Species.

http://theouterlimits.com/episodes/season3/307.htm
http://theouterlimits.com/episodes/season4/418.htm

Are we the message?

That's exactly the idea from The Outer Limits : Double Helix, and sequel, The Origin Of Species.

http://theouterlimits.com/episodes/season3/307.htm
http://theouterlimits.com/episodes/season4/418.htm

Everyone knows that they're SandKing eggs!

Actually, that sounds a lot like I, Robot not by Asimov, but Eando Binder, as seen on Outer Limits (well, it got the OL treatment). BTW that story is older than Asimov's collection of stories.

I saw the remake...it's really very good.

Final Exam

written in 1966 by Harlan Ellison, called Demon with a Glass Hand , which starred Robert Culp. A modern remake is being filmed too.

In Demon, the whole human race was digitized to protect it from alien invasion, not just individual personalities.

I believe you are thinking of this episode of The Outer Limits.

In that episode, he injects himself with his doctor friend's experimental nanobots in a desperate effort to cure his cancer. It works and for a while he keeps improving, sight, hearing, strength, endurance, etc., but then the machines start to make "improvements" like giving him gills and growing eyes in the back of his head. When the doctor tries to kill off the machines with electricity, they defend themselves by adding stinger cells.

He decides he's a hideous freak and it's not worth living. He stabs himself in the heart, only to have the wound repaired and his heart restarted moments later. Eventually he is "killed in a lab fire" when he asks his friend the doctor to put him out of his misery. The episode ends with his wife dropping a picture of him and cutting herself while cleaning up the broken glass, then looking down to find that her cut has disappeared.

I believe you are thinking of this episode of The Outer Limits.

In that episode, he injects himself with his doctor friend's experimental nanobots in a desperate effort to cure his cancer. It works and for a while he keeps improving, sight, hearing, strength, endurance, etc., but then the machines start to make "improvements" like giving him gills and growing eyes in the back of his head. When the doctor tries to kill off the machines with electricity, they defend themselves by adding stinger cells.

He decides he's a hideous freak and it's not worth living. He stabs himself in the heart, only to have the wound repaired and his heart restarted moments later. Eventually he is "killed in a lab fire" when he asks his friend the doctor to put him out of his misery. The episode ends with his wife dropping a picture of him and cutting herself while cleaning up the broken glass, then looking down to find that her cut has disappeared.

New series, second season, episode 2-29

I'd be willing to bet he lists The Outer Limits, since he adapted Inconstant Moon to be an episode for them.

~Philly

Hm. That might explain why they have so many bugs...

Outer Limits; SciFi carries this, but it used to also show on CBS and Showtime. I think SciFi's run is ending. Individual 1-hour long stories that aren't connected.

There are two different "The Outer Limits." The recent one, which airs in Boston on CBS, and the classic black and white one. They are generally the same show with a ~20 year blip and would be my top pick here.

Also of note, which nobody seems to have mentioned yet, is the X-Files. Sure, it sucks now, but it defined the genre. Before the X-Files, scifi was limited to Star Trek TNG.

And don't forget Futurama, Red Dwarf, Sliders, and Star Trek: CBN (CowboyNeal). Hercules and Xena are fantasy, not scifi. ...And don't you DARE put Pokemon on.

IMHO, it's the best SciFi around these days.

Before that, it was Sliders (though only the shows that had the original cast, and before they just started ripping off movie plots). I know on /. it's heresy to say this, but I find all the Star Trek derivatives to be completely unwatchable dreck. First Wave had me for a little while, but then they had to go and add Traci Lords to the cast as a cheap ratings ploy that reminded me of the "addition" of Kari Wuhrer to the Sliders cast. Like a pair of tits is going to keep me from noticing the show's getting hokey? I couldn't even bear the LEXX commercials. Farscape never really got its hooks into me.

I've always been a huge fan of the Twilight Zone, and other shows of that particular genre of sci-fi, and The Outer Limits has taken up the thread quite admirably, with decent effects, familiar stars, and, oh yeah, interesting plots. They did an adaption of Larry Niven's "Inconstant Moon"-- a great story I had wanted to see on screen since I first read it. I'm still hoping they'll someday find a way to squeeze "Flash Crowd" into an hour.)

The only time I really watch the SciFi Channel anymore is when they have one of those all-day Twilight Zone marathons, a good movie, or The Outer Limits.

~Philly

IMHO, it's the best SciFi around these days.

Before that, it was Sliders (though only the shows that had the original cast, and before they just started ripping off movie plots). I know on /. it's heresy to say this, but I find all the Star Trek derivatives to be completely unwatchable dreck. First Wave had me for a little while, but then they had to go and add Traci Lords to the cast as a cheap ratings ploy that reminded me of the "addition" of Kari Wuhrer to the Sliders cast. Like a pair of tits is going to keep me from noticing the show's getting hokey? I couldn't even bear the LEXX commercials. Farscape never really got its hooks into me.

I've always been a huge fan of the Twilight Zone, and other shows of that particular genre of sci-fi, and The Outer Limits has taken up the thread quite admirably, with decent effects, familiar stars, and, oh yeah, interesting plots. They did an adaption of Larry Niven's "Inconstant Moon"-- a great story I had wanted to see on screen since I first read it. I'm still hoping they'll someday find a way to squeeze "Flash Crowd" into an hour.)

The only time I really watch the SciFi Channel anymore is when they have one of those all-day Twilight Zone marathons, a good movie, or The Outer Limits.

~Philly