The idea of playing God and creating artificial life has fascinated us since the earliest days of Science Fiction - but what if our creations turn against us? Dominic Sandbrook and leading writers and film-makers follow our hopes and fears from the first halting steps of Frankenstein’s monster, via the threats of Doctor Who’s Cybermen and The Terminator, the provocative ideas of Blade Runner and Battlestar Galactica, to the worlds of cyberspace and The Matrix where humanity and technology merge.
