This weeks lecture was a viewing of the movie "Bladerunner" a movie which is based about humans creating other human like creatures called "replicants". The movie was based in the future on the premise that humans created other beings as slaves or servants but in time they rebelled and were banned from the planet. The movie deals with different aspects of the future and what was perceived to be futuristic when the movie was created and how technology will dominate life. The movie showed how we depend on technologies and the negative effects it could have in the future on the technological revolution.
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This weeks reading was ‘Do androids dream of electric sheep’ by Philip K. Dick it related to blade runner, and gave a description that a 'blade runner" is: human (a) 1/ of or relating to people or humankind, 2/ having the nature, qualities or characteristics of people or humankind, 3/ of or relating to humankind as distinct from God or gods, animals or machines, (n) a human being. It talks about the use Voight-Kampff machine which in the movie measures if peoples emotions are instinctive or simulated in turn is able to detect if a person is a person or a replicant. The book talks about how some androids are examples of what it is to be a perfect human and the general flaws of humans that could be removed in a robot or "replicant". In general the reading discussed how people believed that an androids could be perfect and how this movie encapsulates this idea.
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Draft work
Readings
This weeks reading was ‘Do androids dream of electric sheep’ by Philip K. Dick it related to blade runner, and gave a description that a 'blade runner" is: human (a) 1/ of or relating to people or humankind, 2/ having the nature, qualities or characteristics of people or humankind, 3/ of or relating to humankind as distinct from God or gods, animals or machines, (n) a human being. It talks about the use Voight-Kampff machine which in the movie measures if peoples emotions are instinctive or simulated in turn is able to detect if a person is a person or a replicant. The book talks about how some androids are examples of what it is to be a perfect human and the general flaws of humans that could be removed in a robot or "replicant". In general the reading discussed how people believed that an androids could be perfect and how this movie encapsulates this idea.
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