Neuromancer

        Throughout the Neuromancer a common theme we see is drugs. In the beginning there is no question as to if Case was addicted to drugs or not. Rivera is constantly in need of drugs in order to function. And Molly uses drugs to push through pain.
         While reading this book I couldn't help but wonder if the idea of drugs went beyond the most surface level sense--people simply taking drugs-- to more of a symbol. I think that they people in the Neuromancer also represent drugs.
         My hint to this was Molly. During the story the way Case treats Molly seems a lot like a drug to me. He feels like he needs her, really enjoys her presence, and she gives him a few small gifts like the ninja star (the same was drugs could give you the "small gift" of a high). But in the end she leaves him and hurts him. This also explains how quickly he grew fond of Molly, much like how Case would grow to love a drug quickly he grew to like Molly.
       When Case first encounters Molly he was addicted to drugs and trying to find something that would make him feel. She acted as a new drug, something he could care about. Though they started out as just friends with benefits it seemed to grow more romantic. This is just like how you could start off using a drug just for fun, but then grow to need and and depend on it. When Molly left was right when he decided to start a new life and ditch drugs.
       The name Molly also hints towards a drug since Molly is also the street name for a very pure form of methylenedioxymethamphetamine, or MDMA (basically super concentrated Ecstasy). In the 1980's there was a spike in the use of Molly and it became very popular to people to take at parties. Sine the Neuromancer was released in 1984, right in the middle of the spike, Molly could have been named after the drug.
         I think that Molly is the Neuromancer is a symbol for the drug culture at the time: appears nice and strong, but in the end it will hurt you and leave you.
       

Google Soul

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          MD Google Soul is sold with a prescription only. Specially designed to help children and young adults who have Asperger's syndrome. WHen being worn the glasses use a special facial reading device to pick up the emotion of people around it and relay that information the the wearer. The glasses then use this information to give the wearer hints on how to interact with each person and keeps them updated on social cues. The glasses work with the wearer to figure how they learn est and what they need the most help with. With a prescription these glasses can be bought at your local pharmacy for $2,500.

          Google Soul 1s are the most basic and affordable of the glasses, for just $1,500. Google Soul 1 allow the wearer to see basic emotions (love, hate, happiness, despair, and anger) and who the emotions are directed towards. The emotions are shown by coloring in peach person with each colors designated color (love-pink, hate-red, happiness-yellow, despair-blue, and anger-black) and a thin line drawn to who they are feeling the emotion towards.

          Google Soul Xtreme has all the same features of Google Soul 1, but with every emotion you can think of mixed in for just $2,000. Instead of each person simply being colored in one color they show many different emotions (each one labeled). In order to keep this from getting to confusing when the glasses are first put on they appear the same as Google Soul 1, but by focusing in on one person all of the new features can be shown.

          Google Soul 1, MD Google Soul, and Google Soul Xtreme come in a red, black, deep blue, or marbled and in a variety of styles. Don't hesitate to buy yours at your local pharmacy now!

Dekard

After watching this movie I was left with onr question: was Dekard a replicant? First, as a disclosure, I missed like a good 45% of this movie cause I was called out of class (Me. Bergeron and I are sorta related apparently!), so I don't have all of the info.

I personally think that Dekard is a replicant for these reasons:
1) We don't see anything about his life before the movie.
          Replicants are given memories of other people, so him remembering was he used to so would make sense, but in order to prove that he's human we would need to see real memories.
2) The unicorn
          The only way people would know about his dreams is if he was a replicant.
3) He has one purpose
          The replicants are made for one purpose and one purpose only (though it varies for replicant to replicant) and Dekard Dekard is only shown to do one thing--fight replicants.
4) Dekard shows little to no emotions
          Dekard-as with many replicants can't show emotion and when he does it seems forced and doesn't appear to make sense.

Also I just want to mention how touching the replicants speech was at the end about how he needs to know how it feels to live in constant fear. He manages to humanize the replicants.