Dependency injection facilitates loose coupling and promotes testability and maintenance. ASP.Net Core provides built-in support for dependency injection (a kind of inversion of control) with a ...

If you can't see Janelle Monae live tonight, you can see her as one of the greatest robots ever filmed in "Autofac," which is a part of Amazon's Electric Dreams series and is based on Philip K. Dick’s ...

The second episode of Electric Dreams delves into an interesting nugget: What happens to a world designed for pure automation when that world finally ends? A nuclear war leaves a small group of humans ...

Even without the coup of casting Janelle Monáe—an artist whose sci-fi concept albums pay richer tribute to PKD’s work than some of this series has managed to—in the role of an android, Autofac would ...

One of the first works of science fiction to feature self-replicating artificial intelligence was Philip K. Dick’s short story “Autofac.” In a post-apocalyptic future, an automated factory continues ...

Philip K. Dick’s 1955 short story “Autofac” envisioned a post-apocalyptic world where the surviving humans are supplied their goods by a robotic system that cares nothing for the planet overall and ...