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Aujourd'hui, retour sur un monument : Le Maître du Haut Château de Philip K. Dick (Prix Hugo 1963) !
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Good overview of Torment Nexus concept. In the end, sci-fi doesn’t teach people to be evil. It simply amplifies today’s evil with tomorrow’s technology.
@books @bookstodon @religion #ChristianSciFi #ProfessorK #tormentnexus #sciencefiction #AI #space #amwritingsf #secretscifinetwork #neilstephenson #isaacasimov #matrix #robertheinlein #williamgibson #philipkdick #cyberpunk #bladerunner #dystopian #musk #thiel
The Guardian · The big idea: will sci-fi end up destroying the world?
Guten Morgen! 
Heute ein #Zitat von #PhilipKDick:
“Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it."
“At last! We have created #PreCrime, from the classic #PhilipKDick short story ‘Don’t Create PreCrime’!”
The Guardian · UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill
#UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/08/uk-creating-prediction-tool-to-identify-people-most-likely-to-kill
Did you know that #PhilipKDick coined the term #PreCrime?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-crime
The Guardian · UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill
Don't get me wrong, I love Philip K. Dick's books. Just let them remain fiction, please.
PS. That also goes for George Orwell and Margaret Atwood.
The Guardian · UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill
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I've always seen #TheMatrix as a not unlikely destiny for humanity.
We will soon be the less intelligent species competing for the same vital resources and are training them on human behavior without even trying to implement #Asimov's laws.
This can only go the way of #PhilipKDick's #SecondVariety:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112664763147341064
(Brilliant, free audiobook.)
"Das Orkale vom Berge" von Philip K. Dick gibts gerade günstig als Ebook im Google Play Store und es stand auf meiner Wunschliste. Vom Thema her gerade sehr passend.
de.wikipedia.orgDas Orakel vom Berge – Wikipedia
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+ + + #Buchempfehlung + + +
#PhilipKDick - Der dunkle Schirm. 1989
Die #Dystopie von 1977 ist ein Klassiker der #ScienceFiction. In einer #USA der Dealer und Junkies soll der Held den Drogenhandel observieren. Dabei verfällt er dem Rausch und kann nicht mehr unterscheiden, wer wen überwacht. Die Wirklichkeit zerfasert ...
Ein Meisterwerk über den Zerfall unter Drogen und eine politische Warnung vor dem moralischen Niedergang. Eindrucksvoll und sehr lesenswert!
Manchmal findet die #SF tatsächlich den Weg ins gehobene #Feuilleton wie in dieser Wochenend-Ausgabe der Süddeutschen. Und ja, beides!!
Emmanuel #Carrère taucht tief in das Leben des legendären Autors ein.
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@finnsend Ja, hat er, das war die Short Story "Do robots dream of electric sheeps?"
Hm, ich mochte und mag fast alles von Dick, vor allem aber seine Romane "The Man in the High Castle", "A Scanner Darkly", 'Ubik" oder "The three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch".
Das ist alles sehr kluge und politisch ausgerichtete #Sciencefiction. Dick war der damaligen US-Administration sehr verdächtig, da er auch gesellschaftliche Fragen in den #USA kritisch thematisierte.
Guten Morgen allerseits
Zum Start ins Wochenende ein schöner Satz des großen amerikanischen SF-Autors Philip K. Dick über uns und die Mächtigen.
“This is a mournful discovery:
1)Those who agree with you are insane
2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.”
Philip K. Dick - VALIS (1981)
Ein kluger Satz zum Abend ...
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
Philip K. Dick hat schon 1978 in einem Essay das Prinzip der Manipulation von Menschen beschrieben. Das ist das alltägliche Geschäft der Herren #Trump, #Putin, #Erdogan etc. Auch #Goebbels und #Hitler haben das bereits genutzt.
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We are currently waiting for a comment from #PhilipKDick. We know he is out there somewhere. 
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Beautiful
One day they were filming a version of that in my neighbourhood in Vancouver and there were Nazi flags hanging from all the buildings on my street
It was very disconcerting
They had people standing on the corners with sandwich boards explaining what they were doing, knowing it would be upsetting if people walked onto the set without warning
The Man in the High Castle
By Philip K Dick
The cover was printed in inkjet canvas. The end papers were designs created by Caparzofpc on DeviantArt
Andrew Leonard continues to write amazing things. He weaves together so many interesting things that you would not normally connect. Phillip K. Dick, Leibniz, tech, politics, Schezwan cooking, spices, journalism, internet, raising kids, Chinese history and so much more
"The Internet has become as useless as the Book of Changes because it will affirm or deny whatever we desire. And I cannot help but connect this unmooring of online truth, this cacophony of digital nonsense, to the state of politics in the United States today.
President Trump spews out insanity on a daily basis and his henchmen routinely say and do the vilest of things and Elon Musk tweets something factually incorrect almost as often as he takes a breath and it all means nothing because nothing means anything.
A quarter of the way through the 21st century, one of humanity’s supreme technical achievements is a network that facilitates the sharing of lies so efficiently that it broke democracy. Would we have elected Donald Trump president a second time, much less a first, if we still had gatekeepers keeping a lid on all the madness?"
#PhilipKDick #IChing #Internet #USPolitics #ScienceandTechnology
https://andrewleonard.substack.com/p/how-the-internet-became-the-book
The Cleaver and the Butterfly · How the Internet became the Book of Changes
Ubik by PKD
Here’s a reel that depicts what I intended to be the overall experience of holding and opening this book. The dust cover depicts the Ubik and the advertisement on the back in relatively normal fashion, only to be revealed as distorted and regressed once the dust cover is removed. All the ads for each chapter in the book are similarly designed.
Ubik by PKD
I went all out on this one. It was a LOT of work: Hand painted end papers, original cover design, original typeset (made in MS Word), custom vintage advertisements, hand sewn endbands, and chisel-trimmed fore edge.
And when all was said and done, I found a glaring typo while flipping through the finished product. 
Oh well. It happens.
