Podcast: Thinking About Thinking Machines: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Past Present Future is a podcast on the History of Ideas hosted by David Runciman and brought to you in partnership with the London Review of Books.
Cover of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, first edition hardcover, for use in illustrating article about book. Harry Sehring - http://www.betweenthecovers.com/btc/reference_library/title/1014273 PD-US
Today’s episode in our series on the history of thinking about thinking machines explores the novel that inspired Blade Runner: Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968). David talks to Shannon Vallor about what the book has that the film lacks and how it comprehensively messes with the line between human and machine, the natural and the artificial. What is the meaning of the electric sheep?
