I saw this over at Locus Online today. Apparently Google is launching its new phone with an Android operating system and calling the phone the Nexus One. Philip K Dick's estate are upset about it claiming that Google is appropriating Dick's work (his novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep which was used as the basis for the best film ever made, Blade Runner).
Clearly the term Nexus One is a reference that everyone with a basic SF knowledge will associate with the Nexus 6 replicants in...
Published on January 08, 2010 01:19