... Man, and the X-Men all explore the various ways the theme of cyborgs and questions surrounding the effects of combining human intelligence with the new frontiers and boundaries of virtual reality and cyberspace. According to Kennedy in his 2001 publication, Introduction to the Matrix, both Blade Runner and the ... science fiction films with its emphasis on the new technologies of spacecraft, dangerous computers with a mind of their own and the use of music and image to create a sense of space and grandeur. Many of these conventions were used in the Star Wars films, which was first relea...

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... which controls the space ship, but consecutively, it is killed by the other astronaut by removing his memory boards. By the 1970s, the fear of A.I. enters everyday life by the Star Wars (Lucas 1977) trilogy, which made A.I. creatures, C-3PO and R2D2, into household names. In the 1980s, A.I. becomes ever more sophisticated. Blade runner (1982), directed by Ridley Scott, is set ... narrative past from its at least temporarily narrativeless present and future." (1992: 153) Production technology is becoming more attractive than "the stories ostensibly justifying the use of that technology v...

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