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In Blade Runner, set in a Los Angeles of 2019, Harrison Ford plays Rick Deckhard, a Blade Runner or policeman whose job is to track down and terminate escaped human clones known as "replicants."

The irony of the situation -- a missing replica of the very author who championed "replicant" freedom -- is not lost on Phil's creators.

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Top-of-the-line voice software loaded with data from Dick's vast body of writing allows the robot to carry on natural-sounding conversations, although it does come off as a bit doddering at times.

Biometric-identification software and advanced machine vision allows the robot to recognise people -- even in a crowd -- read their expressions and body language and talk to them sounding a lot like a normal, albeit slightly senile, author who likes to quote his own books when he gets confused.

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Originally posted by Cybersnark:
What do we think, theft or escape? He's probably alive and well, living on the run in San Francisco or something.

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Ladies and gentlemen, it has officially gotten wierder.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/author-android-goes-missing/2006/02/1
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Phillip K. Dick is missing!!!

Possibly the robotics experts did their job a bit too well: "Phil" apparently went AWOL during or after a flight to California.

This was a few weeks ago, so he could be anywhere by now.


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In Blade Runner, set in a Los Angeles of 2019, Harrison Ford plays Rick Deckhard, a Blade Runner or policeman whose job is to track down and terminate escaped human clones known as "replicants."

The irony of the situation -- a missing replica of the very author who championed "replicant" freedom -- is not lost on Phil's creators.
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What do we think, theft or escape? He's probably alive and well, living on the run in San Francisco or something.

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