Last year an admiring doctoral student and evident computer whiz, David Hanson, built a life-size facsimile of Mr. Dick, using the latest artificial intelligence technology, robotics and a skinlike substance he calls "frubber."
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. . . Warner Independent Pictures, which on July 7 is releasing the film, an experimental, animated thriller directed by Richard Linklater, had intended to send the robot on a promotional tour to promote the film.
That is, until its head went missing.
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"They woke me up, I got my laptop from under my seat, and being dazed, I just forgot that I had the robot in there," said Mr. Hanson, referring to the head in a black, American Tourister roller bag, left in the overhead compartment.
After landing in San Francisco, he notified the airline, whose officials apparently found the head in Las Vegas, packed it in a box and sent it on the next flight to San Francisco. Mysteriously, it never arrived.
4 comments:
I cannot tell you how much I'm looking forward to Linklater's film. A SCANNER DARKLY was always my favorite PKD book.
Ebert and Roeper give it two thumbs up.
I understand PKD lost his head on several occasions
The exact same thing happens to me whenever I fly America West.
But it's probably in Fresno dreaming of electric sheep.
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