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 Phillip K. Dick is an American science-fiction writer who has written 44 novels and about 121 short stories. His science fiction consisted mostly of alternate realities testing the limits of life as we know it. One of his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) is the inspiration behind the movie Bladerunner (1982). Another one of his works that was turned into a television series The Man In The High Castle which won a Hugo award for best novel. Phillip K. Dick is known to have influenced and inspired generations in the way of thinking of the future. He created fictional technological advances that had not been thought of or created yet. Phillip believed we live in a parallel universe and within that we lived in one of the "better ones". Some topics of his works consisted of life being a simulation, existentialism, dystopian dread, realism, multiple realities, time travel, mistrust in technology, virtual reality, and lastly artificial intelligence. All these ide

  - Imagining what the future of humanity will be - Director is Ridley Scott - A robot virtually identical to a human known as a replicant, they used off-world as slave labor. They were banned off earth and police kill any they see, there known to be retired - He asks people questions to see if their a robot or if they can give an emotional response - Flying cars, advertisements on sides of buildings, very tall buildings that are large and contain parking for the vehicles on the top of the building - Deckard is the blade runner and was asked to help solve their problem - Replicants were designed to copy humans besides their emotions but they could eventually get emotions, so they were given a 4 year life span - Tyrell corp motto is “more human than human” - Tyrell corp has Rachael who doesn’t know she is a replicant because she has imported memories, for rachael it took over 100 questions to realize and for other replicants its usually 20-30 questions - Roy goes to

 Class notes: Arthur Clarke became a si-fi writer and did screenplay for 2001 space odyssey and was an actual scientist.  - End of 1960s and the end is very psychedelic, everyone was doing acid and shrooms - Movie started off black with a soundtrack continuing to get higher in pitch sounding eerie - Divided into pieces like the opera so the beginning is the introduction - Intro soundtrack is one of the most famous every made The dawn of man - 2 groups of apes are going crazy across a pond and eventually 1 group scares the other off - Another clip shows a tiger with a huge zebra - Apes are all hiding in a tunnel listening to growling  - Music starts whirling and increasing with sound and the apes go crazy, theres a monolith (cement geometrical rectangular block) that is in their home  - All the apes start touching it, angle showing the rising sun from the monolith,  - Music increases and the ape starts smashing the bones of a skeleton (shows imagination of the ape ki

     My favorite short from Love, Death + Robots was Three Robots: Exit Strategies. This short film was produced by Blow Studio based in Spain, sci-fi writer John Scalzi created both the original and the sequel of “Three Robots”. This short story was to send a message while adding a sense of humor. This story is a great depiction of what the future might hold as far as humans being the ultimate threat to themselves. I enjoyed this film the most because it shows how futuristic the technology could be with robots but also how terrible the future could be if humans do not start changing their ways. The robots have become smarter than humans and even mock them as their creators. The whole film these three robots walk around a post-apocalypse world and digest what they are seeing how at fault humans are.  While trying to figure out how to survive in this world the robots discover human remains of a “survivalist camp” where humans wanted civilization to collapse because they wanted freedom

       While watching this film I could not help but notice the similarities in society during the 1920s to modern day.  During this film society was structured to have the working class live in the depths and work day and night while the upper class live in the above city with beautiful views. Although todays society is not as strictly structured this way, there is a working class and an upper class that live completely separate lives similar to this. Because of this divide I believe the working class is more heavily influenced. In the movie we saw how angelic Maria was preaching to the working class in a religious way and the people followed and listened to her. When the "bad" Maria or the robot Maria came to life and was out to destroy the city the working class listened and follow her just as easily as they did before without even questioning the motive. I believe that these people who are put in the working class living in harsh conditions need someone and something to b

 I am a senior at UT and very excited to takes this class. My hometown is Syracuse NY and I am an allied health major with a minor in marketing. I have interest in the medical field. My hobbies include watching movies with friends and shopping/thrifting. I love fashion and making crafty things. I chose this class because I think science fiction is so interesting, personally I love watching movies and shows that make me feel like I am in a different place or part of the show. I also am interested in artificial intelligence and how our future can change so drastically everyday from it. I really enjoy watching movies but I do not love writing, I am more of a math and science person who enjoys learning visually. I expect to challenge my mind during this course and push myself to think in new creative ways. I do think many movies show how our future can end up and what our technology is evolving towards.