The phrase
"electric sheep" is a combination of two words that are not usually associated together. It is used to refer to a fictional concept in a famous science fiction book called "Do Androids Dream of
Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick. In the book, artificial animals, including
electric sheep, are created because real animals are very rare. This phrase is often used to talk about the idea of creating or imitating something artificially.
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No matter how well you take care of an Android phone, the time will come for it to count its
last electric sheep.
It turns out, with all apologies to Philip K. Dick, robot cars have no need to dream
of electric sheep and can drive all night long.
Spend some time with
those electric sheep and smallpox molecules and you get a fascinating glimpse of the future of charity.
Do androids dream of
electric sheep?
Suddenly
the electric sheep is back in contention.
By coincidence, this exhibition runs at the same time as Blade Runner 2049's general release and one may wish to ponder upon reflection of this exhibition to paraphrase that particular fictional universe's genesis, do humans now dream of
electric sheep?
Instead, they write in the long description that could almost be an obituary, Vierkant, who often works with notions of intangible property, abstracts a subjectivity, dissolving it into an «anti-predictive thing, liberated from the grid of reality to another matrix experience»... Is Profile dreaming of
electric sheep?»