Episode
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams: Autofac
Overview
Despite society and the world as we know it having collapsed, a massive, automatic product-manufacturing factory continues to operate according to the principles of consumerism - humans consume products to be happy, and in order to consume continuously, they must be denied freedom of choice and free will. When a small band of rebels decide to shut down the factory, they discover they may actually be the perfect consumers after all.
Details
- Series
- Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 8
- Air date
- 2018-03-05
- Runtime
- 51 min
Episode context
Autofac is Episode 8 in Season 1 of Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams. It aired on 2018-03-05. The runtime is 51 min.
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