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Haha that linked article is HORRIBLE:
"At least since Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, authors have foreseen new technologies reshaping society"
Hahaha. That's SO cheeseball. And not even correct. Frankenstein didn't reshape anything in the book.
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@Pope John Peeps II: I think you are either quite wrong about that or I misunderstood you.
The lab where he was created in itself was as sci-fi as things got back then. There weren't machines of any sort connected to beds even in hospitals in the early 1800's. Machines CREATING life may not have happened yet but it all started with Frankenstein. Maybe not, but she was the first to popularize the idea. This was again, before computers and television, before everyone even had electricity.
Let alone all of the metaphors and social commentary that Frakenstein himself embodied.
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@Sabbatai: He's talking about how technology envisioned by sci-fi authors changed the world. Not metaphorically, but LITERALLY.
Unless I'm vastly mistaken, no reanimated corpses or created monsters are busy replacing the human race.
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@Sabbatai: Also, Frankenstein was the DOCTOR, the monster was simply called "The Creature". So let's go over again who's "quite wrong", shall we?
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@Pope John Peeps II: First of all, why are you referring to yourself in the third person? Secondly, pretty sure "Let alone all of the metaphors and social commentary that Frakenstein himself embodied" could be read as talking about the good Doctor himself. Thirdly, I'm fairly sure we have found electical current can be used to bring the dead to life in a sense. Haven't you heard of a defibrillator?
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@Unprodigy: That's absolutely nothing like what the article is supposed to be talking about. And even if it were, that's just indefensible writing.
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@Pope John Peeps II: Also, we don't have devices attached to beds powered by electricity that serve medical purposes?
Is Frankenstein directly responsible? No. No more than Star Trek is responsible for cell phones. Reply
Is Frankenstein directly responsible? No. No more than Star Trek is responsible for cell phones. Reply