re: #50 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I find that odd, as it is the ban on any technology that replaces human beings is the key element that ties all the storylines together and explains how humankind has made technological progress on the one hand while our society has reverted to a mediaval structure with an Emperor and Ruling Houses.

That’s how moviemaking goes. Mercerism was pretty important in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, but Blade Runner works fine without it.