The power of communication. apps as human substitutes in science-fiction films

Inanimate entities being able to speak belongs to the traumatic experiences during modernism’s initial phase around 1800. After all, the preceding century had witnessed the movement of Enlightenment put at the center of knowledge and science man, i.e. the man of reason, able of speech. Thusly Herder had described it in his treatise on the origin of language, a superlative corollary from a number of earlier ideas: Man orders the world by sounds converted into language.