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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on December 13, 2017, 04:11:50 PM

Title: Frankenstein
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 13, 2017, 04:11:50 PM


There's a great analysis of Frankenstein's monster as an archetype in Stephen King's Danse Macabre but as technology advances it is interesting how we change our idea of what is a new human and what the ethics of it are.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2QDQ1zW8sTbj0CP0k32x8G3/how-frankenstein-and-his-creature-conquered-the-movies
Title: Re: Frankenstein
Post by: ekim on December 13, 2017, 05:30:29 PM
Quote from: Nearly Sane on December 13, 2017, 04:11:50 PM

There's a great analysis of Frankenstein's monster as an archetype in Stephen King's Danse Macabre but as technology advances it is interesting how we change our idea of what is a new human and what the ethics of it are.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2QDQ1zW8sTbj0CP0k32x8G3/how-frankenstein-and-his-creature-conquered-the-movies
Yes, that has been a recurrent theme in some of the Star Trek series with androids and photonics.
Title: Re: Frankenstein
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 13, 2017, 05:37:52 PM
Quote from: ekim on December 13, 2017, 05:30:29 PM
Yes, that has been a recurrent theme in some of the Star Trek series with androids and photonics.

Agreed and they tend to play with something that looks like us. They are just updates of Mary Shelley's original genius. Unfortunately Turing added his genius and no matter how much we try and get back to androids, they will only exist to make us happy/distracted.