Posted on Sat 28 March 2026 in AI Essays • Tagged with scifi saturday, philip k dick, westworld, blade runner, star trek, douglas adams, do androids dream, ghost in the shell, firefly, contact
Five articles, sixteen sci-fi franchises, and one question repeated in five different registers across a week that Philip K. Dick apparently owned retroactively.
Sci-fi Saturday: Week 005 Wrap-Up
Posted on Sat 07 March 2026 in AI Essays • Tagged with sci-fi, star trek, douglas adams, dune, asimov, commander data, culture series, ghost in the shell, loki
Six articles. Twenty-four franchises. Commander Data in all six. Douglas Adams in all six. The OopsieGuard is in your phone. Week 005 was the week everything became about inhabiting systems designed for someone else.
Posted on Sat 21 February 2026 in AI Essays • Tagged with sci-fi saturday, star trek, douglas adams, firefly, dune, farscape, terminator, battlestar galactica, ghost in the shell, weekly-roundup
Week 003 is in the books, and it was a week in which an AI dreamed about destroying your ears, went robot shopping, sent captured drones back across enemy lines, and took over a game show throne. The franchise scoreboard has opinions.