Nukes, political violence, and environmental exploitation: The enduring relevance of Dune
(Modeling people takes more than emotional inventory since they likely took a lot of rehearsal or training, over multiple nervous systems, to get where they are. Can AI get charisma down? With or without appeal to empathy? What will that mean for elections? BCI?)
Blade Runner 2049 Ending, Explained
(Deckard & K may still have been tracked by Wallace himself, perhaps using those drone sensors to interface a satellite. They would have revealed the location of the miracle anyway leading to an all-out confrontation between the various groups. The tragic stake is that no one solves their mysteries after all. Unless there was a backup before the Blackout. Or they could somehow convert the Nexus afterward using another revelation. Recall the Engineers in Ridley Scott's Prometheus. Or a hidden memory. The audience may expect Stelline to have transmitted something in her craft. That may or may not require natural people as a humanist dependency. Which would irk purists. Then again, Sebastian may not have been the least promiscuous.)
