Just read an article that says that late sci-fi author Philip K. Dick's family is upset at Google over the name of their new phone, the Nexus One.
In Blade Runner (based on Dick's “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”) the replicants are "Nexus-6" cyborgs - the sixth generation of Nexus robots.
Apparently the first generation would have been "Nexus-1"?
I know, it's a stretch, but the goofiest thing of all is that Verizon Wireless actually licensed the name “Droid” from LucasFilm for their phone.
I can see them doing that if it was white with a blue top and went beep-boop-bop-boop-beep - but it's not.
For the whole story, check out: "Is the Google Phone an Unauthorized Replicant?".
Josh finally lives in Maine again
after four years at Boston University,
a stint in Southern California with
Walt Disney Feature Animation,
and two years in Dubai, UAE,
where he created and wrote
Newlywed in Dubai.