Read: "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

Especially in my younger years I have been a dedicated fan of Ridley Scott's movie "Blade Runner". That might be because I liked the dark scenery, the dry acting style of Harrison Ford, and liked the music of Vangelis even more. But it was also the story that was not a usual good guys vs. bad guys stuff that successful hollywood productions often mark.

So, for years I intended to read the sci-fi novel the movie was based on, and at last now I managed to. And I liked it as well. The setting is somewhat different from Blade Runner's background, and not so highlighted dark, but also airs hopelessness not with pictures but with words. Well, you might expect that a book works that way.

Personally it reminded me of some of Stanislav Lem's books, who painted a brighter picture of the future, but also imperfect and highly real to me. Dick's future is livable, but not desireable, and so is its hero, Rick Deckard. Imperfect to the extreme he excells in heroic acts by chance and sheer luck; he is torn in self-doubt and thinks about philosophical questions that are dangerous to think for a bounty hunter.

Personally I expect the matter of articifial intelligence and machines challanging humans will be something will start to think about again one day. Maybe they will discuss it with Siri VI.