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S1E5: Alita: Battle Angel

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S1E4: Upgrade

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References

  • Bostrom, N. (2014). Superintelligence : paths, dangers, strategies. Oxford University Press, Cop. (Original work published 2014)
  • Brynjolfsson, E., & Mcafee, A. (2014). The second machine age: Work, progress, and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologies. W.W. Norton & Company.
  • Kurzweil, R. (2005). The singularity is near: When humans transcend biology. Penguin Books.

S1E2: Akira

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References

  • Brown, S.T. (2010). Introduction. In: Tokyo Cyberpunk. Palgrave Macmillan, New York.
    https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230110069_1
  • Debnath, K., & Kumar, N. (2022). Postmodern Elements in Katsuhiro Ōtomo’s Akira
    (1988). Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews, 10(1), 55-61.
    https://doi.org/10.18510/hssr.2022.1017
  • Gardner, W. O. (2020). The metabolist imagination : visions of the city in postwar Japanese
    architecture and science fiction
    . University of Minnesota Press,.
  • Metabolism : the proposals for a new urbanism. (1960). Bitjutu Syuppan Sha.
  • Napier, S. J. (1993). Panic Sites: The Japanese Imagination of Disaster from Godzilla to Akira. The Journal of Japanese Studies, 19(2), 327–351. https://doi.org/10.2307/132643
  • Otomo, K. (1988). Akira. Streamline Pictures.

S1E1: A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Tags: Season 1 (15) Film (24) Podcast (46)

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References

  • Naremore, J. (2005 Spring). Love and Death in A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Michigan Quarterly
    Review. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-
    idx?cc=mqr;c=mqr;c=mqrarchive;idno=act2080.0044.210;g=mqrg;rgn=main;view=text;xc=1
  • Ebert, R. (2011, July 7). He just wanted to become a real boy. RogerEbert.com.
    https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-ai-artificial-intelligence-2001

Attributions

  • “Lazy Day – Stylish Futuristic Chill.” penguinmusic. https://pixabay.com/music/beats-lazy-day-
    stylish-futuristic-chill-239287/. Free for use under the Pixabay Content License.
  • Gaming Tracks. Riverside. FM. https://riverside.fm/dashboard/editor/c75cb9a8-62b1-4426-b80f-
    bfb4ee19209e/673c30e2f1057863df2dd8e2.
  • ChatGPT was used on 19 November 2024 to generate podcast profile picture and episode profile
    picture. https://chatgpt.com/c/673a1fcb-00f4-8012-8a25-e846df94ab36

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