[ExI] Phil K. Dick, virtual reality, and bitcoin

[Gordon]

"Dick's work addresses all kinds of topics, but it asks different versions of the same question over and over again: How do we know what's real and what's not? As our world becomes increasingly virtual, the 'real' can be easily threatened by the 'not-real.' Imaginary Bitcoins have people questioning their physical dollars. Daily communication happens in ones and zeroes via email rather than through physical letters by pen and paper. This same type of tension proliferated Dick's work and life."


Philip K. Dick's Paranoid Science Fiction Has Largely Become Our Everyday Reality

http://www.businessinsider.com/philip-k-dick-predictions-2014-1
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