Frolix-8

Which PKD Story Are We In Today ?

"After me..."

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - "We will be launching this project by the end of the year. I think it’s already clear that psychiatrists will have to stay within the parameters of the game. They certainly wouldn’t be wandering around the game in white coats and would have to use the same characters available to other players."

Return Match - "This is a game that designs its own AI agents by observing the behavior of humans."

Confessions of a Crap Artist - "The 11th annual "Bay Area UFO Expo Celebration Event" takes place that weekend in Santa Clara, California."

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The World Jones Made

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Which PKD Story Are We In Today ?

"Whatever it takes, by whatever means necessary..."

We Can Remember It For You Wholesale - "Next up: turning soldier’s memories into finely-tuned hard drives."

Shell Game - "The sign could be a huge target and attract undue attention. Anything that would place our officers at risk we need to avoid."

The Ganymede Takeover - "I'm not naïve about the fact that some people will look at this study and say it was irresponsible."

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Are Science Fiction Franchises As Popular As Religion?

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Which PKD Story Are We In Today ?

"Sooner or later, somebody is bound to produce a viable flying saucer bot..."

Second Variety - "The Air Force says that increasingly, humans will monitor situations, rather than be deciders or participants, and that "advances in AI will enable systems to make combat decisions and act within legal and policy constraints without necessarily requiring human input." "

The Gun - "Army officers regard the new guns as almost human, in the same way people speak of the linotype and the adding machine; even more than human, because they minimize the effect of errors by the personnel."

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - "The authors theorized that loneliness motivates individuals to seek out relationships, even if those relationships are not real."

The Days of Perky Pat - "Finally, the drudgery of corporate life has been captured in a play set for adults!" [via technovelgy.com ]

The Penultimate Truth - "The goal is not to erode mission effectiveness, while reducing collateral damage."

The Infinites - "I’m not saying anything about any space-time link between 1893-1977, or time travelers from the future journeying “back” to 1977 Dover. I merely think it’s an interesting coincidence..."

A Scanner Darkly - "Get cracking if you want to help root out the deviants."

Radio Free Albemuth - "History repeats itself because people don't listen."

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We're outsourcing the future, to be built by Thatcher and Philip K Dick

Tomorrows Traditions

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Which PKD Story Are We In Today ?

"While we cannot imagine the world of four dimensions, we can certainly think about it. Perfectly well."

The Great C - "As time goes by, a bacterial computer will actually increase in power as the bacteria reproduce."

The Variable Man - "Something like VASIMR – that's a game changer."

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Blade Runner: Electronic Owls and Illuminati Symbolism

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Which PKD Story Are We In Today ?

Dark-Haired Girl Day. Come back summer, all is forgiven.

Second Variety - "...they agreed that robots that can kill autonomously are either already here or will be soon. "

We Can Build You - "To make future contests more interesting, the researchers plan to increase the robot pitcher’s throwing speed to 150 kph (93 mph) and teach it to throw breaking balls and changeups. In addition, they plan to train the robot batter to repeatedly hit balls to the same target."

VALIS - "There’s nothing going on — I’m OK."

The Hood Maker - "...when you go to the disco all the people will be flashing hot girls to know all the information..."

A Scanner Darkly - "Ms Chakrabarti told the BBC’s Today programme on Radio 4 that the state of privacy in Britain had reached a new low "if we now believe that the only way to teach 7 to 11-year-olds to respect property, to behave well, is to put closed-circuit television in the toilets". "

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Ubik is now also available in Bahasa, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Portugese and Russian

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Gig Blogged #84 - Kong @ Nottingham Chameleon

Kong @ Chameleon, Nottingham, Thursday 23rd July 2009

Now showing over @ palmereldritch.co.uk and facebook.com/palmer.eldritch

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Which PKD Story Are We In Today ?

Another Dark-Haired Girl Week ends. Hoopy.

Martian Time-Slip - "Without being able to derive a firm sense of reality from spontaneous involvement in social encounters, participants feel “unruled, unreal and anomic”...and experience intense autistic emotion."

A Scanner Darkly - "...the trend is toward turning the police car into another node in an omnipresent network of surveillance sensors, capable of tracking even people who have done nothing to arouse suspicion."

Dr. Futurity - "The groundbreaking finding here is that you can make lesions deep in the brain--through the intact skull and skin--with extreme precision and accuracy and safety."

The Variable Man - "Now, new video of a hovering combat robo-craft shows the potential for military drones to be faster, more maneuverable - and deadlier."

Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said - "The men asked me to provide them with details about my identity. I asked them under what authority they were making their request. They did not provide a clear answer to this question in that they failed to state the legal authority under which they were making their enquiries..."

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Is There Such A Thing As A Gloriously Unfilmable Book?

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Which PKD Story Are We In Today ?

Dark-Haired Girl Week. Welcome to Thursday.

A Scanner Darkly - "Seriously, this is what happens when you have police posing as perps at every level of the drug business."

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? - "It is not impossible to build a human brain and we can do it in 10 years."

Nanny - "Archie is supposed to help out around the house with cooking, cleaning, and other mundane tasks."

Autofac - "The RepRap project has been working on bringing 3D printing to the masses by creating a extrusion printer that can also make the majority of its own parts."

The Electric Ant - "Like the father of a bride, I feel both happy and sad."

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How much of Blade Runner has come true?

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Dark-Haired Girl Week, day three. In case you were wondering.

The Man In The High Castle - "The article then goes on to quote Hitler at length talking about something that Americans who worked in advertising at the time already believed: that the masses are morons who respond only to simple messages repeated thousands of times..."

Now Wait For Last Year - "It is found in equal amounts in both men and women but its affects are felt more by women because of their levels of estrogen and prolactin, which increase the effects."

A Scanner Darkly - "The point is we live in a land where people are considered innocent until proven guilty...Not a land where it's supposed to be -- prove that you're not doing anything wrong by letting us watch you do everything." AND "Despite the revelation that there are almost one million fewer CCTV cameras in the UK than previously thought, Britain still appears to have far more watchful eyes trained on its population than other countries." AND "We didn't know that sunshine laws meant that floating this kind of insane balloon within government meant that the public would find out how totally, completely, creepily nuts we are, whoops!"

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Prominent Black professor arrested for entering own home while Black

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Dark-Haired Girl Week continues. . .

Clans of the Alphane Moon - "So, the Irish government is asking people to trust that it will be sensible – precisely what it won’t trust the public to be."

Radio Free Albemuth - "Mr Poole, a coach driver from Sowton, said 15 family and friends had come to the event, where they were watched by a police helicopter for about 15 minutes."

Sales Pitch - "I do hope those cops were off-duty, though."

A Scanner Darkly - "The security of Leicester schools at night will naturally be ensured by CCTV cameras monitored from Manchester."

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If There's Not Life On Mars, We'll Add Some

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