Frolix-8

Which PKD Story Are We In Today ?

Paycheck - "It's a big step forward, and one that will be of considerable interest to the military, which has devoted efforts to memory manipulation as a means of treating post-traumatic stress disorder. But some military research has moved in another direction entirely."

Eye In The Sky - "The Hubble Space Telescope went back online, and it was just in time to warn us about the deadliest threat we've faced so far — the giant Eye In Space."

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Which PKD Story Are We In Today ?

Second Variety - "Though they haven’t been able to meet their goal of making a thousand of them, the researchers are hopeful and confident about their abilities to mass produce the robots cheaply."

Eye In The Sky - "The master of frantic surrealism, Haruki Murakami, joins the chorus of authors saying that we're living in a science fictional era now."

James P. Crow - "We've heard about the McCain campaign's controversial use of robocalls, but the Obama campaign is going one better, and using full-on robots to get out the vote."

Shell Game - "In fact, hate activates the brain regions associated with higher reason and the ability to predict what other people will do."

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--- Dick-Headline --- God Hates Signs Protest of The Westboro Baptist Church

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Which PKD Story Are We In Today ?

Second Variety - "The Pentagon's all-too-life-like four-legged robot may be about to get a whole lot bigger, stronger, smarter, and tougher to slow down."

We Can Build You - "Eventually, Darpa wants IBM to put together a fake brain that can identify objects in a video, interact with humans, and "exercis[e] all levels of cognition." "

Dr. Bloodmoney - "Currently, the United States is the only declared nuclear power that is neither modernizing its nuclear arsenal nor has the capability to produce a new nuclear warhead."

Nanny - "Their motions and behaviors are based on real bio-dogs, but they seem to have borrowed a bit of cat behavior as well — you tell the robot what object to grab or open, by gesturing with a laser pointer."

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--- Dick-Headline --- Cardinal dubs embryo bill 'Nazi'

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Which PKD Story Are We In Today ?

Spotted in an alcove at the Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham

The Man Who Japed - "The driver has been caught on camera on several occasions and the puppet is on the passenger seat every time. We suspect he positions the toy deliberately before accelerating past the camera."

Now Wait For Last Year - "The fictional town of Eureka (from the TV series by the same name) is going to potentially become a real life town as the University of Queensland, in Australia, plans to build a multibillion-dollar 'brain city' dedicated to science and research."

Dr. Futurity - "A research team at the school has created water-soluble electronic materials that spontaneously assemble themselves into wires some 10,000 times smaller than a human hair, for potential uses that include regulating cell-to-cell communication, re-engineering neural networks, repairing damaged spinal cords and transforming individuals into cybernetically enhanced drones."

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - "The result is a surreal simulation during which Bringsjord's diabolical incarnation attempts to produce a logical argument for its actions: The boy wanted a gun, E had a gun, so E gave the boy the gun."

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--- Dick-Headline --- PKD Trust on the Rampage

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Gig Blogged #79 - Lords @ Leicester Criterion

Lords @ the Criterion, Leicester, Monday 27th October, 2008.

Now showing over at palmereldritch.co.uk

Which PKD Story Are We In Today ?

Monday. Dark-Haired Girl Day

A Scanner Darkly - "Check am Flughafen: Scannen bis auf die Haut"

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? - "Objective: Develop a software and sensor package to enable a team of robots to search for and detect human presence in an indoor environment."

Sales Pitch - "The Worst Time to Buy, the Best Time to Enjoy Ads"

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--- Dick-Headline --- If a satguru isn't God, what is he?

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Gig Blogged #78 - Lords @ Nottingham Arts Organisation

Lords @ the Arts Organisation, Nottingham, Friday 24th October, 2008.

Now showing over at palmereldritch.co.uk

Which PKD Story Are We In Today ?

Clans of the Alphane Moon - "I was suddenly divorced, without a word of warning. That made me so angry."

Stability - "Trouble first surfaced in June, he said, when he was summoned to the assistant principal’s office. Representatives from the city’s Department of Investigation were there to ask about the book."

Mr. Spaceship - "An intermediate layer of in vitro neurons interfacing between man and machine could be advantageous..."

Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said - "So basically if you're the victim of a ID thief, you'll have to carry around additional identity papers."

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--- Dick-Headline --- Robot Packs Wanted To Hunt Down Humans

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The Minority Report - Know Thy Place

New building, somewhere in UK education. Enter TEACHER, who addresses IT TECH.

TEACHER- Are there any people in today?

Which PKD Story Are We In Today ?

A Scanner Darkly - "By the end of the project, Darpa wants a set of technologies that can see into a 10-story building with a two-level basement in a "high-density urban block" -- and produce a kind of digital blueprint of the place."

Eye In The Sky - "Arrested by security police and initially held without charges, he was eventually tried on blasphemy charges, convicted and sentenced to death."

Ubik - "The prototype key features NXP's SmartMX security chip -- the same chip at the heart of many of the world's e-passports -- making it possible to use the key to pay for fuel at the pump, tolls...or at any number of places where flagrantly flaunting your BMW logo-adorned key could get you noticed."

The Mold of Yancy - "To me, it motivates us, makes us work that much harder...and it also strengthens my faith, because I'm going to know, at the end of the day, putting this in God's hands, that the right thing for America will be done at the end of the day on Nov. 4. So I'm not discouraged at all."

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--- Dick-Headline --- Android source code released

"They say music should be fun, like reading a story of love. But I wanna read a horror story." The Fall, Dice Man (Dragnet, Step Forward 1979)

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