The Android and the Human was written by Philip K. Dick in 1972. His concern in this essay is with human beings “casting out our innate living quality to inert things surrounding us.” He predicts that, as we give our inner selves up to animating the world outside of ourselves, we, at one point, will discover that we, ourselves, have become
inanimate, dead in the sense that we are being led by outside constructs. He sees and fears the evolution of the human being and computer meeting each other half way—”artificial constructs maquerading as humans” and “the reduction of humans to mere use—the greatest imaginable evil.” This leads him to ask the question—what is life?
“What is it in our behavior that we can call specifically human?”
to be continued…
momento nel tempo 
Half computer, half human is an interesting concept, one I am exploring in my latest sci-fi offering X-Calibre. Read more about it in an upcoming post. By the way, the painting (the scream) was the inspiration for the cover of Bowie’s 1977 lp “Heroes”. The Paris – Berlin period was rife with musical associations to fine art. David’s two ’77 collaborations with Iggy Pop were named after books “the Idiot” (Dostoevsky) and “Lust for Life” (Irving stone-about Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin).