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IcebergSlimFast t1_iu6mhu6 wrote
Dick knew what was up!
Wasted-Entity t1_iu8v7gk wrote
This is blowing my mind. Up until I knew about AGI I would have never even conceived of such a technology, and this mf predicted it 43 years ago wtf.
Erick999Silveira t1_iu8zpwp wrote
The concept of artificial life is thousands of years old. Some just predict it better than others, what is mindblowing is Brave New World and some other short stories in the beginning of the last century predicting the world we live today.
Ok_Ad_2562 t1_iu8hn65 wrote
Yikes!
Reasonable-Room-307 t1_iu6q878 wrote
I love Dick.
SnooDingos5783 t1_iu7n0c2 wrote
This is the rare case when I get to say I also like dick
Nintell t1_iu6xajj wrote
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Reasonable-Room-307 t1_iu7hprv wrote
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debil_666 OP t1_iu7tk9a wrote
Same tbh
BootHead007 t1_iu6u8pt wrote
Thatās because PKD was a modern day prophet.
ihopeimnotdoomed t1_iu7yfjp wrote
I've said this before
petermobeter t1_iu6imv0 wrote
philip k dick was very creative
bmw_19812003 t1_iu78xz8 wrote
PKD knew what was coming, not that he was a mystic per se but he had a unique ability to see what was happening and to put the pieces together of what would be the end result.
He may not of had mystical powers but he was prophetic in both the modern and biblical definitions. If you have never looked into his life or his writings I recommend reading āUbikā and the VALIS trilogy by PKD or if your more interested in a biographical book āHigh weirdnessā by Eric Davis does an excellent job.
āThe empire never endedā
Brincotrolly t1_iu6oc9u wrote
And bibleman happened also lol
TheSingulatarian t1_iu77oqz wrote
SF Authors often get things surprisingly right. Heinlein's The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress has an AI that seems pretty accurate though perhaps a little too anthropomorphized.
kimmeljs t1_iu7qu00 wrote
Dick wrote about prescience as if he knew what he was going to tell about
Akimbo333 t1_iu7h6lx wrote
What was the name of the book?
gameryamen t1_iu7ne5z wrote
It was in Rolling Stone magazine, then reprinted in this book.
debil_666 OP t1_iu7t3gj wrote
Isbn 978-0-544-04054-0
magosaurus t1_iu8dao0 wrote
That is pretty incredible. Thank you for sharing.
purple_hamster66 t1_iu906fc wrote
Where do you think we got the ideas in the first place? :)
KitchenAmbition3448 t1_iu99gsp wrote
There was a scene in one of his short stories in which the man's work setting involved him sitting in a cubicle (before cubicles were really an office phenomenon) pushing and pulling an array of tubes in a certain order depending on what he was trying to do. The tubes transmitted information.
Rather than using the transmission of info to do his actual work, he was using them to play games and communicate with other tube-pullers.
Now he didn't get the "desktop" right or anything, but the image of a person sitting in a cubicle using his work equipment to slag off talking to distant people and playing games is startling accurate to today's modern "white collar" worker on the internet.
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TheExtimate t1_iu97jyi wrote
In another time, he would have been considered a prophet.
modestLife1 t1_iu9nc0g wrote
> From its slot came a hamburger,
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debil_666 OP t1_iu68wjk wrote
Written, by the way, in 1979!