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Blade Runner just around the corner

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Tyrell Corporation: more human than human Blade Runner is a 1982 film based on the novel " Do Androids dream of electric sheep? " by Philip K. Dick ; it discusses about artificial human (completely built by man) of biological consciousness caught over the years. This artificial human with better performance than natural ones, had become a hazard by its creators and that they had been banned on Earth and they had an expiration date of four years (when they died). I don’t explain the plot but the film debates about what is or what it means living , it personalized by creatures built as our image and likeness, and at same time what rights has the creator on creatures created by It (doesn’t matter human or God). Blade Runner is a milestone for fans of the genre (science fiction). In the era of digital special effects and virtual reality it seem outdate, but the music of Vangelis , darkness and minimal convincing special effects, gives sufficient consistence it despi...

Fahrenheit 451: the temperature which knowledge begin to burn

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In a no far future when houses will be fireproof; firefighters will not extinguish fire but their new job will be to burn books. This is the approach of Ray Bradbury in his novel Fahrenheit 451 where he described a world without lecture and books forbidden . 451 degree Fahrenheit (233 Celsius degree) is the threshold to ignition of organic matter in consequence paper that are make the books. The novel isn’t a defense of editorial industry but they talk about ignorance of society. Societies where all needs are covering people lose their curiosity and they will become believer to the government speech. The easy life helps to accept the status of thing without critics, and the fear of losing the comfortable life blokes mind of ideas that can put in danger this status. In short it has a life of vegetable.     Ray shows people lobotomized by TV unique channel of knowledge and the way to manipulate population. This novel was write in 1953 in the USA of American dream wa...

The dream is far away today

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Space the last border With this phrase start all the episodes of a low budges series called Star Trek that will slim three seasons, but forty years later it has generated one cartoon series, four spinoff, twelve films and more of eight video game; without to think about the millions dollars wined with its merchandising. In fact it was a science fiction series born at the culmination of the space race ; and like others of that time has an improvement technology respect to the 50 years but the approach was the same: new worlds, monsters, dangers and final victory of dominant specie what is humans (of course). However, its success will be in place all its action in a new and different context. Enterprise is a spacecraft that belongs to an interplanetary fleet, Earth is a planet confederate with others planets which have other smart life forms with biology independent of us; the relationship between humans and aliens is on equal terms, with alliances and enemies these can change acc...