Category: Science Fiction Film

  • Blade Runner 2049: Android Liberation Between Old and New Informatic Power

    Blade Runner 2049 is a brilliant sequel to the original Blade Runner. Thirty years after the events of the first film, the police discover evidence of the secret that Rachael, who was a replicant or android, became pregnant and gave birth in a “natural” fertility process to a child. Rachael died while achieving childbirth.

  • The Truman Show: “The Last Thing That I Would Ever Do is Lie to You”

    Truman Burbank is under surveillance by television cameras 24 hours a day within the framework of a carefully choreographed Reality TV show watched by billions of voyeuristic viewers globally. Truman lives inside a vast Hollywood studio erected as an enclosed dome that is so large that it can be seen from outer space.

  • The Zeroth Law of Robotics and the Robot Unconscious

    The suspenseful story of the film I, Robot depends on the energy and complexity of the zeroth law of robotics – added as an even higher ethical priority than the first three laws by Asimov in 1950 in “The Evitable Conflict.” The zeroth law then became a permanent fixture in Asimov’s science fictional literary imagination.

  • I, Robot and the Moral Dilemmas of the Three Laws of Robotics

    One of the contemporary developments with which Hayles is concerned is the techno-scientific project that has attracted widespread attention of building robots which, thanks to their Artificial Intelligence, will behave and operate in imitation of humans, yet, in all probability, will not have human-like consciousness.

  • Mobility and Science Fiction, by Alan N. Shapiro

    The term “digitalization” accurately describes the technologies of the past several decades which we already have, like the automation of the office and other work processes, and Personal Computers and the Internet. The next wave of “futurist” technologies is better described with a term like the Fourth Industrial Revolution or self-aware technologies.