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10 Upcoming Sci-fi Movies & TV Shows that Data Scientists Can Look Forward In 2018

There is a buzz for AI all around and the entertainment industry is not far behind. We enjoyed some amazing movies and enthralling TV shows in 2017. And we bring to you your guide to ultimate entertainment for the year 2018. Let’s get you set for these

TV shows:

Altered carbon

Release Date: February 2nd Netflix

ALTERED CARBON is based on Richard Morgan’s 2002 novel is set in a future where human consciousness is digitized allowing humans to survive death by having their memories and consciousness transferred into new bodies.

Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams

Release Date: Amazon Prime 12th Jan

From the mind of the prolific sci-fi author, comes the new anthology series Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams. With 10 standalone episodes and a sweeping all-star cast, each epic story will explore fantasy, humanity, and a future we’ve only begun to imagine.

Westworld Season 2

Release Date: Spring 2018

Westworld is set in the future where visitors get to interact with automatons. But what happens when the automatons mal function? West world is coming back and it would be about Chaos as mentioned by Jonathan Nolan .

Movies:                                                                            

Annihilation

Release Date: Feb 2018

Based on 2014 novel by Jeff vandermeer’s. It is adapted from the first one in the trilogy. It surrounds a biologist who goes onto an expedition after the disappearance of her husband.

Pacific Rim Uprising

Release Date: March 2018

The monster Kaiju is back in Pacific Rim’s sequel for the year 2018. Stacker Pencost’s son Jake now leads a new generation of Jaeger pilots against a new kaiju threat.

Replicas

Release Date: June 2018

A scientist fights against the laws of science to get back his family lost in a car accident.

Alita: Battle Angel

Release Date: July 2018

It is set several centuries in the future where a Cyber-doctor finds an unconscious cyborg in the scrapyard. Alita wakes up with no memory of her past in an unknown world. She fights deadly forces as she tries to discover her past. You are in for an action-packed film, with as tory of hope and empowerment.

Captive State

Release Date: August 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ing5huB7sDg

An American Sci-fi thriller it talks about the conflict between collaborators and dissidents after an occupation by an extra terrestrial force.

Ready Player One 

Release Date: March 2018

Ready player one directed by Steven Spielberg and is based on Ernest Cline’s bestseller of the same name, which has become a worldwide phenomenon. This is based in the future 2045 where the protagonist Wade Watts enters a virtual reality game to find an Easter egg. The Prize for same is to inherit all the fortune of the creator of the game.

Mortal Engines

Release Date: December 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEC8v8AjydI

An adaption of Philip Reeve’s quartet of the same name the movie is based on a futuristic, steampunk version of London, now a giant machine striving to survive on a world running out of resources.

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Bhasker is a techie turned media entrepreneur. Bhasker started AIM in 2012, out of a desire to speak about emerging technologies and their commercial, social and cultural impact. Earlier, Bhasker worked as Vice President at Goldman Sachs. He is a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow.

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