摘要：Just what do you think you're doing, Dave." asked the chilling, disembodied voice of HAL as his human passenger sought to disable him in the classic Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey. This is a good question, not just for one computer defending itself but for a vast array of artificial beings which have been created only to be destroyed before they could replace humans in a long tradition of Western plays, novels, and films. Does such fictional combat relieve a universal anxiety that besets all post-Fordist societies or is it a therapy for some unique fear specific to a given country. To answer this we will examine the Japanese case because the prevailing notion is that the Japanese people have been exceptionally accepting of technology's alliance with humans. This paper will seek to determine if it is true that the Japanese more readily incorporate machines into their bodies and if so, why. The major technologies to be explored are robotics, entertainment media, Internet, eugenics, body modification, and drugs
