Books
by Philip K Dick
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' |
Written in 1968, this rhetorical commentary set in a dystopian world is strangely accurate in its predictions of modern society and especially technology. "Advanced" humans have recolonised on Mars, abandoning war-ravaged Earth to lesser beings and to Androids whom Rick, a bounty hunter, is ordered to destroy. You have to read it to make sense of it! It raises many moral questions concerning the autonomy of the individual and the boundaries between real lived experience and that of artificial intelligence.
(Eloise May - bwl 79 Winter 2016) |
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