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Tratto dal racconto di Philip K. Dick "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (Gli Androidi sognano Pecore Elettriche? Il Cacciatore di Androidi, in italiano), fissato su pellicola per il grande schermo da un regista che solo tre anni prima
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aveva sbancato il botteghino con il capolavoro di fanta-horror Alien. Ridley Scott.
In una Los Angeles distopica nell'anno 2019, la Tyrell Corporation ha sviluppato una serie di androidi replicanti, i Nexus 6, del tutto indistinguibili dagli uomini,
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con il compito di colonizzare lo spazio. Il film racconta del cacciatore di androidi Deckard (Harrison Ford) al quale viene affidato il compito di scovare e "ritirare quattro lavori in pelle" scappati dalle colonie extra mondo e atterrati clandestinamente sulla Terra,
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As a teenager, my early intensive exposure to the internet wasn't to the real thing (thankfully, I'm too old for that).

It was to William Gibson's 𝘕𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳.

The real internet has been a disappointment ever since.
Gibson's internet is a mystical phenomenon, an unfathomable, incorporeal communion with the infinite, a home of godlike AIs, beyond time and space. It is terrifying and wonderful.

(Gibson knew next to nothing about tech, and it shows).
𝘕𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳 is a fine piece of pulp poetry, a comic book in words only. But the writer who truly saw what the internet would be isn't Gibson. It's Philip K. Dick.
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