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Philip K. Dick Dead but Not Dead for 30 Years

I’ve become such a huge fan over the years. I just wonder how many Billions of dollars his ideas made for Hollywood. But of course Money isn’t everything. It just looks like it’s everything. If there is one writer that was an inadvertent man of his times it’s PKD.

This is from Stubby the Rocket on TOR.COM. Some great comments below the article.

-XFP

Today marks the 30th anniversary of Philip K. Dick’s death, so we’d like to pause for a moment at the end of the day to appreciate the work of a man who not only wrote science fiction, who not only lived fully within in it, but actively expanded it outwards. More….

The Cyborgs Have Arrived

We clearly need this (JOKING). Why would we want to extend our nervous systems when we can’t handle what we have?

It was 12 years ago, states a recent wmagazine.com report that “Warwick declared he was on a mission to become the world’s first man-turned-machine. He began this undertaking, dubbed Project Cyborg, in 1998, when he had a microchip embedded in his body, something that had never been attempted before. Surgeons inserted a glass capsule containing several micro-processors into Warwick’s arm, and for the next nine days his presence was recorded by computers throughout the university’s cybernetics department.”

http://www.huliq.com/10282/cyborg-technology-implanted-human-brain-predicted-year

R.I.P. Don Cornelius

I wish so much that people were more like this now. Sometimes I think the internet has destroyed everything. Hop on the Soul Train forever. It’s about people actually getting together in person.

-XFP

Missing Persons – Animated Feature by 2 People

This animated film is amazing for a few reasons. I am still not exactly sure how it was created by just two people. It shows an infinite amount of dedication. The O’donnell brothers also invented their own method for producing the animation. The sensibility is remarkably original. Hats off.

XFP

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