Gun with Occasional Music

Since reading Gun with Occasional Music and watching Bladerunner, I've been thinking about our perceptions of the future. In Bladerunner, it was suggested that the future will hold great technological advances, enough to make a replica of a human. The future in Bladerunner also has pollution, overpopulation and a whole new planet to relocate to. At the rate things are going now, I dont see any of this being impossible (except for the new planet thing and the fact that Bladerunner was supposed to be set in 2019). Are these futuristic themes meant to scare us be eluding to what the earth could be like if we continue living the way we do now? The green movement is an effort to reduce pollution caused by humans. Technology and medicine is advancing every day whether we know it or not. Even architecture is becoming more radical. We have robot vaccuum cleaners, engineers are developing cars that will navigate pretty much on their own, it seems as though every day objects are becoming electronic for our ease. Will this be our downfall?

As far as Gun with Occasional Music, I dont believe any of it would be possible for America, let alone the world. It is too unrealistic and not comparable to how we live today. Although the drugs in the book in some ways remind me of the reasons why people use illegal drugs today: forget a painful memory, repress emotions, to be accepted, some times to just live daily life for an unfortunate few.

Laura Hughes