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[email protected]. Architecture, Technology, and Change Human Associations with Architecture and the Machine Rob Kronenburg “Replicants are like any other machine— Carolyn Grace owns and flies a war- they are either a benefit or a hazard.” time Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX that In this statement from Ridley Scott’s her husband restored before his death: 1982 film Blade Runner, Deckard, the assassin of androids (or android Every time I see the Spitfire it thrills assassin), defines the relationship with me, it’s such a beautiful thing. When the artifacts human beings make in you climb up on the wing and slide unequivocal positive and negative the canopy open you get this won- terms.1 However, in Philip Dick’s book derful, seasoned smell, a mixture on which the film is based,Do Androids of aviation fuel, hydraulic fluid and Dream of Electric Sheep, the character’s oiled metal. The cockpit is very statement is more fuzzy: “A humanoid narrow, and when you climb in, it robot is like any other machine; it can sort of encases you within it.