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Philip K Dick: the writer who witnessed the future
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 3133" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><h3><a href="https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220301-philip-k-dick-the-writer-who-witnessed-the-future" target="_blank">Philip K Dick: the writer who witnessed the future - BBC</a></h3><p><strong>Forty years since the death of the sci-fi author – whose stories have inspired films like Blade Runner and Minority Report – Adam Scovell explores how prophetic his work has been.</strong></p><p></p><p>I am in passport control. I can see my face on a screen. The technology recognises me and lets me through. I scan codes showing my vaccination status and recent Covid test results. The machines assess the data regarding my health and microbiology. Through into the waiting room, people are staring into little screens. A strangely large number have the camera flipped, and are capturing their faces at different angles, as if they've forgotten what they look like. I open my laptop and join in. I give my details to a company to enter the digital realm. Adverts tailored to my personality pop up. They know me better than I know myself.</p><p></p><p>This is 2022. And 2022 is a Philip K Dick novel.</p><p></p><p>Writers of science fiction often feel more prescient than others. Whether it's the threat to women's rights in the work of Margaret Atwood, the architectural and social dystopias of JG Ballard's novels, or the internet-predicting world of E M Forster's The Machine Stops (1909), the genre is replete with prophetic writers dealing with ever more familiar issues.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 3133, member: 1"] [HEADING=2][URL='https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220301-philip-k-dick-the-writer-who-witnessed-the-future']Philip K Dick: the writer who witnessed the future - BBC[/URL][/HEADING] [B]Forty years since the death of the sci-fi author – whose stories have inspired films like Blade Runner and Minority Report – Adam Scovell explores how prophetic his work has been.[/B] I am in passport control. I can see my face on a screen. The technology recognises me and lets me through. I scan codes showing my vaccination status and recent Covid test results. The machines assess the data regarding my health and microbiology. Through into the waiting room, people are staring into little screens. A strangely large number have the camera flipped, and are capturing their faces at different angles, as if they've forgotten what they look like. I open my laptop and join in. I give my details to a company to enter the digital realm. Adverts tailored to my personality pop up. They know me better than I know myself. This is 2022. And 2022 is a Philip K Dick novel. Writers of science fiction often feel more prescient than others. Whether it's the threat to women's rights in the work of Margaret Atwood, the architectural and social dystopias of JG Ballard's novels, or the internet-predicting world of E M Forster's The Machine Stops (1909), the genre is replete with prophetic writers dealing with ever more familiar issues. [/QUOTE]
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