Mars Express
Mars Express is a 2023 French animated neo-noir science fiction film co-written and directed by Jérémie Périn. In 2200, Aline Ruby, a private detective, and Carlos Rivera, an android replica…
Seven Sisters
As hard times and broken bots threaten a collective tea farm, the women keeping it going must decide whether to add another to their ranks.
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By: Janelle C. Shane Issue: 29 June 2020 6016 words She pointed to herself, said her name, then pointed to her bots and said their names. She pointed at the…
The Future of Work: The Farm, by Charlie Jane Anders
Once, The Daily Argus had fact-checkers, copy editors, legal advisers. Those people are gone now, and in their place there’s the Farm.
Excerpt: Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin Hood, fabricating cheap scrips for poor people who can’t otherwise…
Martha Wells, “Rogue Protocol: The Murderbot Diaries”
Wells has incorporated aspects of herself in Murderbot, a fact that resonates with readers. “I have some problems with anxiety and OCD and I’ve put those into the character… and…
This Future Looks Familiar: Watching Blade Runner in 2017
I would not call the world of Blade Runner strange, because it’s the opposite of strange. It’s familiar. If you subtract the flying cars and the jets of flame shooting…
What kind of rights should it have?
This two pieces of media go well together. BBC Discovery “Can Robots Truly Be Intelligent?” and Why do we give robots female names? Because we don’t want to consider their…