No longer do we live in a world in which science fiction is fiction. What does it mean for our imagination to have finally caught up with reality? Today, to live is to be in constant “electronic symbiosis” : a partner in the “dance of repulsion and attraction, violence and creation, humanity and the machine.” By considering this simultaneous repulsion and attraction” toward technology, we can begin to understand the seemingly ironic existence of a television series that warns viewers of the dangers…
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