"The novella began as a story treatment for a proposed film adaptation of Alan E. Nourse's novel The Bladerunner. (Some sources describe Burroughs' work as a closet screenplay.) A later edition published in the 1980s changed the formatting of the title to Blade Runner, a movie.
Burroughs' treatment is set in early 21st century and involves mutated viruses and "a medical-care apocalypse". The term "blade runner" referred to a smuggler of medical supplies, e.g. scalpels.
...Burroughs' treatment is set in early 21st century and involves mutated viruses and "a medical-care apocalypse". The term "blade runner" referred to a smuggler of medical supplies, e.g. scalpels."
laws against robot, e.g. ticket bot, impersonation bots, "small" donation bots, voting bots, donor bots
From Professor Tim Wu, the author of “The Attention Merchants: The Epic Struggle to Get Inside Our Heads,” is a professor at Columbia Law School and a contributing opinion writer to New York Times
A simple legal remedy would be a “ Blade Runner” law that makes it illegal to deploy any program that hides its real identity to pose as a human. Blade Runner legislation
today’s impersonation-bots are different from the robots imagined in science fiction