Classic Philip K. Dick and his android world As in many cases before, I first got acquainted with Ridley Scott's famous and landmark 1982 film Blade Runner. A great picture, which over time became a classic and even got a sequel 35 years later. But I managed to read the original source from one of my favorite writers, Philip Kindred Dick, as an adult. What can I say. After reading it, I rethought Scott's full-length painting for myself, as well as the entire book world that exists in Dick's work. The author introduces us to his world of the near future, which is still fantastic for humanity today. Humans have explored other planets, unleashed wars, and created android assistants to help people live in space colonies. Over time, these machines began to evolve and ask questions about their role in this world, and why they should obey humanity. It got to the point where the androids started to rebel. On Earth, they created a special unit of Blade Runners, people who were supposed to look for runaway androids and eliminate them before they could mess up, harming humans. In the center of the plot is one of the Blade Runners, Rick Deckard, who will begin hunting a group of androids that have landed on Earth and are demanding elimination. Deckard appears as a skilled bounty hunter, and with him the reader needs not only to explore the world of the future existing in the novel, but also to immerse himself in people's knowledge of themselves as a species, try to understand the feelings of artificial android creatures and try to answer for himself, and where does the line between a true human and a thinking machine lie? which may well identify itself with its creator, and sometimes even consider itself a more developed being. In this work, Philip K. Dick sets the rules for the future of the popular Cyberpunk genre, while still vague, but quite recognizably conveys the postulates that operate in such a world. By placing his characters in the post-war dangerous world of the future, the author begins to explore various areas of human thought through the prism of his characters' vision of the world. Who is a man? And what defines humanity? Is the concept of humanity valid only for a biological person? Or can human-made androids also show humanity? This problem is raised by many authors who write about robots. But Philip K. Dick has a special vision of the world, where the fates of the characters are intertwined, and the reader will determine for himself how to deal with the above-mentioned concepts. And such questions of humanity are still relevant in our world, although, as such, there are still no intelligent machines created by man. This is a matter for future reflection, when our species finally reaches such a level of technological progress, when the stories of science fiction writers finally become reality. That's when the real debate among lawmakers about whether a car has the right to fit the definition of "humane" will unfold. The world is cruel. We can still observe the low level of humanity of individuals and societies that seem to be stuck in the past, remaining adherents of the old laws of the world order, where everything is decided by force, rather than cooperation and the desire for human development. Of course, this approach greatly slows down the development of our entire species. But even if we had Philip K. Dick androids today, the question of humanity would be very acute. Especially when a biological person can be cruel, destructive, and dangerous to their own kind, and a robot can adequately understand how important human life is, be able to contemplate beauty even in the most ordinary things, and strive to learn as much as possible, especially if it has a short lifespan. In his own way, the author perfectly presents to us the world of a hypothetical future, where people are still learning to live, doing right and wrong things, sometimes thinking about what responsibility they bear to society and the newly created race of machines. Dick's novel is designed to learn how to live and react to changes in our world, become more humane and move on to a new stage of mental evolution. After all, the world is much more complicated than it is. And every form of life has a right to exist. Even if humanity feels that it stands above this new form of development and law. 9 out of 10