Frolix-8

Which PKD Story Are We In Today ?

	Stability - "Apparently there's a danger people might think we're part of the Olympic delivery team."
	Vulcan's Hammer - ". . .in a decade or two, scientists and journalists may well look back at this moment as the dividing line between machines that dredged massive amounts of data—with no clue what that data meant—and machines that started to think, just a little bit, like people."
	Autofac - "Ken doesn’t think that there are enough people using the printers the way they were intended--to print the parts for more printers. . ."
	--- Dick-Headline ---   5 Creepy Forms of Mind Control You're Exposed to Daily

Which PKD Story Are We In Today ?

	The Days of Perky Pat - "Back off! I wanna buy a customised human"
	The Simulacra - "This is bio-mimicry, when technology imitates nature."
	--- Dick-Headline ---   Russia and Japan aim for the Moon

Which PKD Story Are We In Today ?

	The Hood Maker - "Her reasoning is that it would prevent identification mistakes and even allow soldiers to identify combatants from non-combatants."
	Martian Time-Slip - "In experiments at six public universities, students assigned randomly to statistics courses that relied heavily on “machine-guided learning” software -- with reduced face time with instructors -- did just as well, in less time, as their counterparts in traditional, instructor-centric versions of the courses."
	--- Dick-Headline ---   Secret history: Richard Nixon hired Stanley Kubrick to fake the moon landing

Which PKD Story Are We In Today ?

	Clans of the Alphane Moon - "To find out if it’s optimally designed, we need to consult a higher authority. Namely, slime mold."
	The Crack In Space - "Look all I’m saying is I want a women with three boobs on there, it’s every mans dream right? Let’s keep it classy though and make sure she has stars covering her nipples."
	--- Dick-Headline ---   Total recall: The man who can remember every day of his life in detail

Which PKD Story Are We In Today ?

	Last Of The Masters - "I know I'm irrationally anthropomorphizing, but watching the machines in action, I almost feel sorry for them."
	The Penultimate Truth - "Paranoid? Perhaps."
	Radio Free Albemuth - "The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) warned lives could be damaged by problems of mistaken identity and raised the prospect that service providers could use the vast data to profile their users for commercial gain. "
	Ubik - "Of course, teenagers aren't the only ones who feel the ill effects of a disconnect between biological time and social time. "
	--- Dick-Headline ---   Perfume-puffing robot sniffs out social media mentions

Which PKD Story Are We In Today ?

	Radio Free Albemuth - "There is one, simple fact: from health records to criminal records, employment details and other personal data, government databases are not only open to abuse, but are actively being exploited by the very people we supposedly trust with our data."
	The Ganymede Takeover - "For the first time they will have their own organic ability to engage targets."
	The Hood Maker - "Our ability to act on forensically-sound, time-critical information, from SMS to images contained on a device quickly gives us an advantage in combating crime, notably in terms of identifying people of interest quickly and progressing cases more efficiently."
	Sales Pitch - ". . .a computer-implemented method includes enabling advertisers to associate advertisements with one or more environmental conditions to allow the advertisements to be provided to users whose environmental conditions match the environmental conditions associated with the advertisements."
	--- Dick-Headline ---   Are musicians our external brains?

Which PKD Story Are We In Today ?

	The Exegesis - "M13 poses no threat to humans — it can only infect bacteria — but it could one day serve humanity by powering your laptop, or even your city."
	--- Dick-Headline ---   Kodak confirms it had weapons-grade uranium in underground lab

Which PKD Story Are We In Today ?

	A Scanner Darkly - "This colorful toxic brew was about 300 meters long."
	--- Dick-Headline ---   Did Parking Meters Just Get Too Smart?

Which PKD Story Are We In Today ?

	Null-O - "You never know when you’re going to see a proper emotion."
	The Man Who Japed - "Turbocharge Your DEPRESSION"
	--- Dick-Headlines ---   Security supervisor used dead man's ID After the Singularity, heaven will be filled with pop-up ads

Which PKD Story Are We In Today ?

	Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep ? - "It strikes me that the internet is a little like the empathy box."
	The Exegesis - "Radical new research is attempting to characterize the properties of a fifth force that disrupts the predictions general relativity makes outside our own galaxy, on cosmic-length scales."
	The Gun - "A scientific ghost town in the heart of southeastern New Mexico oil and gas country will hum with the latest next-generation technology -- but no people."
	--- Dick-Headline ---   Do humans dream of android prostitutes?