Robotics
An open, uncultivated country or grassland in southern Africa and also the title of one of the texts we have read.
What is the veldt?
The one in Skin Deep who really likes the looks of the woman in the clinic.
Who is the surgeon?
These are natural human clones.
What are identical twins?
The title of the film that refers to the operating system, Samantha.
What is HER?
The meaning of ”The hot breath of civilisation”.
What is global warming?
The genre of the short story The Veldt which abbreviated is called Sci-Fi.
What is Science Fiction?
The name of the clinic in Skin Deep.
What is Positive Image?
When you take an egg and remove the nucleus.
What is an enuclated egg?
The life you lead on different media on the computer.
What is virtual life?
The things that have created global warning according to The hot breath of our Civilisation.
What are our number (overpopulation), our inventions (technology), our desires and needs.
A very expensive room in The Veldt forty feet across by forty feet long and thirty feet high in the Happy-Life House which can become 3 dimensional and change at the thought of a child
What is the nursery?
The reason why the woman in Skin Deep wants surgery.
Who is the husband?
The process by which a person’s DNA is used to grow an embroyonic clone which is only used to grow stem cells that can cure and repair humans.
What is therapeutic cloning?
In HER Catherine gives the reason as to why Theodore is dating his operating system that he cannot handle these.
What are real emotions?
The two possible scenarios that the speaker lines up at the end of The hot breath of our Civilisation.
What is the beginning or the beginning of the end?
The name of the Hadley’s high-tech house in The Veldt which indicates that the habitants have a positive living.
What is the Happy-Life House?
The process where you suck out human fat to make humans thin. It was pioneered in France.
What is liposuction?
This was the first successfully cloned animal which was cloned in 1997.
What was Dolly the sheep?
It is a term in Can virtual reality take over real life? used to express that we encounter people on our screen where we are in total control.
What is reduced-risk encounter?
An expression used in The hot breath of civilisation that means that a person acts in a way that harms himself.
What is foul one’s nest?
A technological place with personal traits which has made it possible for that place to take over the parents’ part in the children-parent relationsship in The Veldt.
What is the nursery?
Material used in breast implants.
What is silicon?
The main claim in Suffer Little Children.
What is embrace the technology (that modifies the human genes)?
According to Can virtual life take over real life?, this is where we need to use the skills: self-sacrifice, trust, accountability and risk.
What is real life?
The ones who, according to The hot breath of our civilisation, will benefit from us changing our behaviour (referred to as unborn individuals).
What are the coming generations?