Blade Runner and Neuromancer display big corporations that are powerful enough to control advanced technology that result in individuals losing their identity and freedom. Blade Runner and Neuromancer highlight between technological progress and its effects on individuals. In addition, they both show how much control people have over the face of powerful corporations and technological dominance. In Blade Runner, corporations created advanced techs known as replicants that are identical to humans but denied basic rights. It narrates the issues of identity, ethical boundaries, and the nature of humanity. The key themes presented throughout Blade Runner are the impacts of advanced artificial intelligence on society and the loss of identity. Neuromancer is similar to Blade Runner in that it has advanced technology that modifies characters while trapped in a highly corrupted world by corporate power. The key theme for Neuromancer is corporate control dominating society by taking away their freedom and personal identity. The Relation Between High Technology, Human Identity, the Body, and the Dystopian Future Society of Neuromancers emphasizes how Case was already stripped of his identity when jacking into cyberspace. He started having withdraws when he couldn’t jack into cyberspace which shows the effects of the relationship between technology and his identity. In Technodystopia: Are we heading towards a real-world Blade Runner? It expresses ethical implications on what it means to be human. For example, Rick connects with Rachel and Roy, who question his morals as if replicants can hae feelings and basic rights just like humans. The distinction I learned between the two is in Neuromancer, Case depends on technology that presents a loss of individuality, while on the other hand, Rick deals with the wonder if replicants can have humanity. Both articles demonstrate corporate power control over advanced technology affects personal identity and freedom. Blade Runner and Neuromancer bring attention to the lines between humans and machines and question what it means to be human in a society where technology can modify our traits as a human.
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Paterson, A., & Bush, G. (2022, February 21). Technodystopia: Are we heading towards a real-world Blade Runner?Unimelb.edu.au; The University of Melbourne. https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/technodystopia-are-we-heading-towards-a-real-world-blade-runner#:~:text=First%20and%20foremost%2C%20this%20sci
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