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Book · 1979 · Fiction, general

Blade runner

by William S. Burroughs, Oliver Harris, Daniel Ortiz Peñate · Recommended by 2 people on 2 podcasts

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And it reminds me of like I watched Blade Runner last night for the first time in years and instead of murdering replicants they retire.
Ben Bowlin · Stuff They Don't Want You To Know · Feb 2023 Listen at 31:58

The best things said about it

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Discussed
We watched uh some clips from Blade Runner that movie Blade great flick That was supposed to be 2019.
Joe Rogan The Joe Rogan Experience · Mar 2017

Why people recommend it

Blade Runner by William S. Burroughs, Oliver Harris, and Daniel Ortiz Peñate is a speculative work tied to the cinematic legacy of Philip K. Dick's dystopian universe. While discussing technology and science fiction on Stuff They Don't Want You To Know, Ben Bowlin brought up the iconic film adaptation. He compared the internet concept of deactivation to how replicants are retired in the movie rather than simply murdered, reflecting on how the story's terminology shapes futuristic concepts. Similarly, on The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan and guest Dan Peña discussed clips from the movie adaptation, marveling at the cinematic vision and noting how remarkably close the once-distant year 2019 had become relative to when the film was originally conceived. Across these podcast conversations, speakers used the iconic imagery and terminology of the Blade Runner universe to contextualize modern digital habits and analyze how past generations imagined the arrival of the twenty-first century. The discussions underscore the lasting cultural footprint of the Blade Runner narrative across various forms of media and public discourse.

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Ben Bowlin and it reminds me of like I watched Blade Runner last night for the first time in years and instead of murd… 1
Discussed
“and it reminds me of like I watched Blade Runner last night for the first time in years and instead of murdering replicants they retire”
Joe Rogan we watched uh some clips from Blade Runner that movie Blade great flick That was supposed to be 2019 1
Discussed
“we watched uh some clips from Blade Runner that movie Blade great flick That was supposed to be 2019”

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“What was the original Blade Runner? Wasn't it like 2019 or something?”
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“And then these language models, because of the copyright issues, they're not able to upload Blade Runner and then say, "Hey, make me something."”
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“just like in blade runner by the way the in blade runner that's how they found uh one of the replicants”
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“we're going to get to a Blade Runner day it's going to happen it's getting there're on the way it's 100% I mean if you look at the fact that the the you know the supercomputers that they had in the 1960s filled entire rooms and they didn't have the power that your iPhone has right just think about that”

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