Android and the Human

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«The Android and the Human is a speech given by science-fiction author Philip K. Dick at the Vancouver Science Fiction Convention, taking place at the University of British Columbia in December 1972. It was subsequently published in the fanzine SF Commentary, issue 31. In it the author examines the psychology of humanity as seen through the lens of technology, and vice versa. […] Dick compares the way that modern technology is animated by mechanism or computation with the way that, according to sociology, primitive man imagines reality itself to be “alive”: Rocks, clouds, and the rest of his environment seeming full of hidden motivation, often replete with malice or benevolence.» (Android and the Human sur Wikipédia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Android_and_the_Human)

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