From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 20:08:35 MDT
At 09:10 AM 7/11/02 -0400, Harvey wrote:
>Sorry, but this is an old sci-fi theme.
I'm sure it is, but it's hard to find good examples prior to the last two
decades. Most of the stuff you list isn't even close.
>1909. E.M. Forster's "The Machine Stops" The entire world is run by
>machines and humans are kept in little hexagon cells. They only
>communicate via through the machine which lets them see and hear each
>other but not touch.
So? Nothing at all to doing with uploading in Forster. Good guess at a
cocooned on-line society, though.
>1966-1969. This was a common theme in the original Star Trek episodes.
If it's in the intensely derivative and dumbed-down ST in the '60s, it must
be everywhere in ASTOUNDING or other sf zines in the 30s and 40s.
>1968. The move "Bladerunner" was based on Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids
>Dream of Electric Sheep."
Erm, no. 1982.
>It describes replicants who are duplicated
>copies of humans including memories and personalities.
Really? I think it's far more likely that their memories were composite
constructs, and fragile with it.
Damien Broderick
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