The second episode of Electric Dreams delves into an interesting nugget: What happens to a world designed for pure automation when that world finally ends? A nuclear war leaves a small group of humans ...

Even without the coup of casting Janelle Monáe—an artist whose sci-fi concept albums pay richer tribute to PKD’s work than some of this series has managed to—in the role of an android, Autofac would ...

Let’s go straight to the second episode of Amazon Prime Video’s new anthology—Electric Dreams—based on stories by American science fiction writer Philip K. Dick’s, “Autofac.” (The first season has 10 ...

Philip K. Dick’s 1955 short story “Autofac” envisioned a post-apocalyptic world where the surviving humans are supplied their goods by a robotic system that cares nothing for the planet overall and ...

Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky In “Autofac,” Monae gets to the content of a robot’s soul, which is indeed nothing because it works all ...