From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Wed Apr 17 2002 - 00:14:20 MDT
Neither Blade Runner nor The Sixth Man featured a poor
helpless, pathetic, true clone, namely, a small child
who of course is fully human, and therefore as saintly
in our society as any other child. I don't know about
the other SF that Dan mentioned.
Spike wrote
> Shortly we will see wearable computers become practical. The
> cell phone adventure of the past 20 years gives us a vision of what
> it will be like to have a wearable, especially if we get good enough
> with them to create a practical advantage over non-wearers. spike
Yes, and cell phone users arouse resentment already
---some of the resentment deserved, of course. But
fine clothing used to do the same, and culturally
we're very used to it. This is something else:
Clearly all the conservative tendencies in our society
are uniting to demonize the creation of clones, but
actual clones must engender even more sympathy than
the child in the movie AI. This coming paradox can
obviously be exploited in SF, but the novels that I
remember in which children are persecuted, e.g., SLAN
and The Midwich Cuckoos, were about mutants, not true
human children.
Lee
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Subject: Re: MEDIA: The Remastered Race
Technotranscendence wrote:
On Tuesday, April 16, 2002 10:39 PM Lee Corbin lcorbin@tsoft.com wrote:
Speaking of 'remastered races' and cloning, has any SFauthor yet portrayed the poor clones
as hunted fugitives?
PKD, John Varley, and, I'm sure, many others whose names escape me.Also, the films
"Bladerunner" and "The Sixth Day" had just this.
X-men came close to this, altho the mutants were not actually clones.
The proletariat masses being uncomfortable with any humanoid with
any advanced or abnormal abilities.
It was educational to watch how much difficulty society has had
with something as trivial as cell phones. In a very weak sense, they
represent an enhanced ability to the user, a very slight advantage.
Schools wanted to disallow them, they were considered rude, etc,
even if the person did not speak loudly.
Shortly we will see wearable computers become practical. The
cell phone adventure of the past 20 years gives us a vision of what
it will be like to have a wearable, especially if we get good enough
with them to create a practical advantage over non-wearers. spike
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