Prophets of Science Fiction (2011–2012): Season 1, Episode 3 - Philip K. Dick - full transcript

WITHOUT COMPROMISE, PERFORMANCE WITHOUT
SACRIFICE. Narrator: WHAT IS REALITY?

DID THE PAST REMEMBER ACTUALLY
HAPPEN? CAN YOU EXIST IN TWO REALITIES

AT ONCE? ARE YOU WHO YOU THINK
YOU ARE? SCIENCE FICTION AUTHOR PHILLIP

K. DICK SAYS WE'LL ALL BE ASKING SUCH
QUESTIONS. JUST ONE OF HIS LATEST.

ALL OF HIS NOVELS COMBINED TOGETHER ACCURATELY
PREDICTED THE WORLD THAT WE'RE IN NOW.

TOMORROW BEGINS THE SPARK OF IMAGINATION, A
FLASH OF INSIGHT AND INSPIRES TECHNOLOGIES TO

CREATE NEW WORLDS. I'M RIDLEY SCOTT,
AND THESE ARE THE "PROPHETS OF SCIENCE

FICTION." I THINK PHILIP K. DICK IS
ALMOST LIKE THE CHARLES DICKENS

OF SCIENCE FICTION. IN HIS SHEER DENSITY
AND DETAIL, NEARLY ALL OF HIS STUFF COMES

FROM THE REAL PLACE, WHICH IS
REALITY, WHAT HE SEES AS CORRUPTION.

AND IT WAS SEWING THAT THE DARK SIDE WAS
ROMANTIC. THERE WAS A ROMANTIC ASPECT TO



THAT DARK ELEMENT, THOSE DARK
CORNERS. Narrator: INSIDE THAT

DARKNESS, PHILIP K. DICK CREATES 44 NOVELS AND
120 SHORT STORIES IN A CAREER SPANNING 30 YEARS.

HE WRITES HIS SCIENCE FICTION WHEN COMPUTERS
ARE EXPERIMENTAL AND TELEPHONES ARE TETHERED BY

WIRES. YET PHILIP K. DICK FORESEES A
FUTURE WHERE SCIENCE WILL CHANGE

OUR PERCEPTION OF WHAT IS REAL. IN HIS MOST
PARANOID MOMENTS, HE FEARS THE CHANGES HAVE ALREADY

COME. ONE CRISP NOVEMBER DAY,
HE FINDS HIS HOUSE RANSACKED.

HIS FIREPROOF SAFE BLOWN APART. HIS
FINANCIAL RECORDS AND MANUSCRIPTS DESTROYED.

HIS MIND REELS WITH THE POSSIBILITIES.
DID ONE OF HIS BOOKS ABOUT

GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY GET TOO CLOSE TO
THE TRUTH? DID ADDICTS BREAK IN, ACTING ON

SOME DRUG-INDUCED HALLUCINATION? OR IS HE THE
ONE HALLUCINATING? HAS SOMEONE FOOLED HIM INTO

THINKING THAT HIS HOUSE WAS
BROKEN INTO? OR IS THIS A VISION OF THE

FUTURE THAT HASN'T HAPPENED YET? DICK
HAS A LONG HISTORY OF VISIONS ATTRIBUTED TO

SCHIZOPHRENIA, TO DRUGS, TO
PARANOIA. NO ONE HAS A DEFINITIVE ANSWER.

WHATEVER THEIR CAUSE, DICK'S DOUBTS ABOUT
REALITY ARE THE FUEL FOR DECADES OF MIND-BLOWING



FICTION. I THINK PHILIP DICK IS THE
MOST IMPORTANT FIGURE IF SCIENCE

FICTION, EVEN MORE SO PERHAPS
THAN H.G. WELLS. PHILIP K. DICK IS AN

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FIGURE IN SCIENCE FICTION
BECAUSE OF THE DARKER VIEW THAT HE TOOK ON THE

EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE. Reporter:
DICK'S WORK EXPLORES TECHNOLOGY'S IMPACT.

HIS PROTAGONISTS STRUGGLE. THE MOVIE "BLADE
RUNNER" IS BASED ON "DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF

ELECTRIC SHEEP?" IT SUGGESTS
THAT THESE ANDROIDS MIGHT HAVE

CONSCIOUSNESS, THAT THEY AREN'T JUST COMPUTERS
GOING THROUGH RAPID CALCULATIONS BUT THAT THEY

ARE ACTUALLY THINKING BEINGS THAT MIGHT ALSO
DREAM, SLEEP. AND SO PUTTING IT IN THE FORM OF

A CHRISTIAN LEADS TO LARGER QUESTION OF THAT
BOOK WHICH IS WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE HUMAN?

Narrator: DICK CREATES A PROTAGONIST WHO
EMBODIES THE CONFLICT OF COMPETING REALITY.

IN THE FILM "BLADE RUNNER," RICK DECKERT IS A
BOUNTY HUNTER, CHASING DOWN ROGUE ANDROIDS OR

REPLICAS PORTRAYED IN THE MOVIE AS
EERILY HUMAN. NOT ONLY ARE THEY AS SMART AS

HUMANS, BUT THEY COME EQUIPPED WITH
EVEN MEMORIES. I REMEMBER BEING DEEPLY

UNSETTLED BY THAT WORLD, IN PARTICULAR, AND
BY THE NOTION THAT NOTHING IS WHAT IT SEEMS.

HE DEPICTS THE ANDROIDS
DISTURBINGLY VERY MUCH LIKE OURSELVES.

THEY WANT TO KNOW WHERE THEY CAME
FROM. AND THEY RAGE AGAINST THEIR OWN

MORTALITY. IF WE CAN CREATE A
ROBOT THAT IS VIRTUALLY INDISTINGUISHABLE

FROM A HUMAN, THEN WHAT DOES IT MEAN
TO BE HUMAN? WHAT HAPPENS IF A ROBOT HAS

EMOTIONS? WHAT DIFFERENTIATES
US FROM THE MACHINES?

Narrator: OVER FOUR DECADES LATER, SCIENCE
IS ON THE CUSP OF REALIZING DICK'S VISION OF

HUMANIZED ANDROIDS. TO DEVELOP AN ANDROID,
YOU NEED MANY KINDS OF TECHNOLOGIES

BROUGHT TOGETHER. WE CALL
THIS BIOINSPIRED ENGINEERING.

THIS INVOLVES NUMEROUS DISCIPLINES
RANGING FROM MECHANICAL DESIGN TO MATERIAL

SCIENCE, SKIN MATERIAL THAT SIMULATES HUMAN
FACIAL FLESH. WE'RE EVOLVED OVER MILLIONS OF

YEARS TO WORK TOGETHER USING OUR
FACES. SO WE USE THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE

OF HUMAN FACIAL EXPRESSIONS. TO DEVELOP NEW
MATERIALS L LIKE WHAT WE CALL FRUBBER OR FACE

RUBBER. SO FRUBBER IS THIS REALLY
NICE SPONGY RUBBER MATERIAL.

IT'S POROUS. AND WHAT THAT MEANS
IS IT'S FILLED WITH A SORT OF FLUID THAT

ALLOWS IT TO BE REALLY SOFT AND TAKES VERY
LITTLE ENERGY TO MAKE EXPRESSIONS THAT LOOK VERY

NATURAL. IMAGINE HOW SOFT OUR
FACES ARE ALONG WITH THE ELASTICITY AND

THE ABILITY TO WRINKLE AND FOLD. WE THEN
TAKE OUR FRUBBER MATERIAL AND CONNECT IT TO

MOTORS THAT ARE INSIDE THE HEAD. SO FRUBBER ALLOWS
US TO SIMULATE MUCH BETTER FACIAL EXPRESSIONS.

Narrator: THANKS TO DAVID HANSON,
THERE IS NOW A DUPLICATE OF PHILIP K. DICK.

THIS IS MY FAVORITE PROJECT. THE
ANDROID PORTRAIT OF PHILIP K. DICK.

WE SEE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PLAY
IN NUMEROUS AREAS ON THE ANDROID.

WHEN HE'S MOVING LIKE THIS, HE'S DISPLAYING
THE FACIAL EXPRESSIONS SOMETIMES IN

RESPONSE TO WHAT'S BEING SPOKEN. PHILIP K. DICK
HAS INFLUENCED ANDROID ROBOTICS IN MORE WAYS

THAN CAN BE COUNTED. GREAT ANDROID
DESIGNERS AND DEVELOPERS OF THE WORLD WILL

POINT TO THE MOVIE "BLADE RUNNER" AND THE
WORKS OF PHILIP K. DICK AS MOTIVATING FACTORS.

Narrator: BUT WHEN ROBOTS MIRROR THE APPEARANCE
OF HUMAN REALITY TOO CLOSELY, WE FIND

OURSELVES REPELLED BY THE REFLECTION.
ANDROID DESIGNERS AND COMPUTER

ANIMATORS DESCRIBE THIS
PHENOMENON AS THE UNCANNY VALLEY.

THE ONE CANNY VALLEY IS A THEORY
POSITIVED BY A JAPANESE RESEARCHER.

IT BASICALLY SUGGESTS THAT THE MORE REALISTIC
THAT YOU MAKE A ROBOT, THE MORE APPEALING IT

BECOMES UNTIL IT STARTS BECOMING
REALLY REALISTIC. AND THEN IT BECOMES VERY

UNAPPEALING. BUT AT SOME POINT
OF REALISM WHERE YOU MAKE IT

INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM A PERSON, THEN IT BECOMES
APPEALING AGAIN. ANDROIDS THAT LOOK EXTREMELY

HUMANLIKE MAKE PEOPLE NERVOUS
BECAUSE WE WONDER, DO THEY HAVE A SOUL?

ARE THEY GOING TO SHARE OUR
VALUES? OR ARE THEY FROM THIS WEIRD

TRIBE OF MACHINE BEINGS THAT ARE INVADING
OUR WORLD? Narrator: STRANGE AS IT MAY

SEEM, ONE OF YOUR CHILDREN OR
GRANDCHILDREN MIGHT MARRY AN

ANDROID. I BELIEVE THAT WITHIN
20 YOERS, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

WILL ACHIEVE HUMAN-LEVEL CAPABILITIES ACROSS
THE BOARD. AT THAT POINT, OUR HARDWARE WILL

BE BACKED UP BY A BRAIN. AND YOU
WON'T KNOW THAT THEY'RE ANDROIDS.

Narrator: IN THE MOVIE "BLADE RUNNER," BECKER
USES A COMPLEX MACHINE, THE EMPATHY TEST, TO

DETERMINE IF HE'S DEALING WITH A HUMAN OR
REPLICANT. THE LACK OF THIS UNIQUELY HUMAN

TRAIT IS USED IN THE MOVIE TO INDICATE AN
ANDROID. THE REVELATION COMES AS A SHOCK

TO THE ANDROID ITSELF, HAVING HAD PREINSTALLED
MEMORIES OF A WHOLE LIFE THEY NEVER REALLY

LIVED. BUT IF MEMORIES CAN BE FAKED,
NO ONE CAN BE SURE OF THEIR OWN

IDENTITY. RICK DECKERD
RECALLS PASSING THE TEST.

BUT IS IT POSSIBLE HE, TOO, IS AN
ANDROID? ONE OF THE THINGS THAT PHIL

DIG LIKED TO DO IN HIS BOOKS WAS TO HAVE A
SENSE THAT REALITY IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS ON THE

SURFACE. SO IF A BUG WENT INTO YOUR
EAR THAT GAVE YOU YOUR PAST AND IT

DIDN'T EVEN EXIST A WEEK BEFORE, THIS IS
WHAT HE LIKED TO DO, WHAT I CALL THE REALITY

BREAKDOWN. Narrator: THE THEME
OF IMPLANTED MEMORIES IS CLOSE TO

PHILIP K. DICK'S HEART BECAUSE HE SOMETIMES
STRUGGLES WITH HIS OWN CONFUSION ABOUT REALITY.

HE ASKS HIMSELF, ARE
MEMORIES REAL? Narrator: IN 1928,

DEPRESSION-ERA CHICAGO, TWINS
ARE BORN. PHILIP K. DICK AND HIS SISTER,

JANE. JANE IS PHIL'S CONSTANT
COMPANION AND BECOMES THE MOST

INFLUENTIAL PERSON IN THE SCIENCE FICTION
WRITER'S LIFE. YET HIS TWIN SISTER DIED WITHIN

SIX WEEKS OF HER BIRTH. SO HE GREW UP IN
THIS KIND OF LONELY ENVIRONMENT AND HEARD

ABOUT HIS MISSING TWIN SISTER. AND THAT
HAD TO HAVE HAD A PROFOUND EFFECT ON HIM.

Narrator: TO YOUNG PHILIP,
JANE IS A MISSING PART OF HIMSELF.

IN HIS WORLD, SHE IS REAL. HE HAD A GREAT
IMAGINATION. HE'S BEEN TOLD THE STORY.

AND A NATURAL THING FOR SOMEONE TO DO, WHEN
THEY ARE TOLD A STORY, IS TO MENTALIZE THAT.

THAT OFTEN COMES WITH IMAGERY. I CAN
IMAGINE IT. I WANT TO IMAGINE WHAT MY BABY

SISTER MUST HAVE LOOKED LIKE AND
SO ON. Narrator: PHIL DICK SEES HIS

SISTER IN VIVID DETAIL. THERE ARE
PSYCHOLOGISTS WHO ATTRIBUTE THESE VISIONS TO

MENTAL ILLNESS OR DRUGS. PHIL KNOWS MOSTLY
THAT THE VISIONS AREN'T TOTALLY REAL.

BUT THEY MAKE HIM THINK. WHAT MAKES
ME ME? THE SUM TOTAL OF EXPERIENCES.

FUNERALS. WEDDINGS. BIRTHDAYS.

CHILDHOOD FEARS. ALL THE MEMORIES OF A
LIFETIME ADD UP TO MAKE A UNIQUE PERSON,

BUT WHAT IF SCIENCE HAD A WAY TO PLANT
FALSE RECOLLECTIONS OF A LIFE NEVER LIVED?

WHAT IF AN UNHAPPY CHILDHOOD OR THE LOSS OF A
SIBLING COULD BE TURNED INTO HAPPY MEMORIES?

SCIENCE FICTION WRITER PHILIP K. DICK
IMAGINED THE NOT-TOO-DISTANT FUTURE IN WHICH

DESIRABLE MEMORIES CAN BE
PURCHASED. HIS 1966 NOVELLA, "WE CAN

REMEMBER IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE," DESCRIBES
A MARKET FOR UNCONVINCING BUT ARTIFICIAL

EXPERIENCES. IMPLANTS MEMORIES
ARE A FORM OF ADVENTURE TRAVEL.

THE BASIC MARS PACKAGE, 899
CREDITS. NOW, THAT'S FOR TWO FULL WEEKS

OF MEMORIES COMPLETE IN EVERY
DETAIL. HOW REAL DOES IT SEEM?

AS REAL AS ANY MEMORY IN YOUR
HEAD. Narrator: UNABLE TO AFFORD A

TRIP TO MARS, AN ORDINARY MAN SEEKS THE NEXT
BEST THING. SURGICALLY IMPLANTED MEMORIES OF

A THRILLING MARS ADVENTURE. WHY GO TO MARS
AS A TOURIST WHEN YOU CAN GO AS A FAMOUS

JOCK. SECRET AGENT.
HOW MUCH IS THAT?

Narrator: BUT WHAT IF THE MEMORY
WAS IMPLANTED WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE?

HOW CAN YOU KNOW IF YOU ARE THE
REAL YOU? IN THE ORIGINAL STORY, IT

DOES IMPLANT MEMORY. WHETHER THAT'S
TRUE OR NOT, THAT'S ANOTHER QUESTION.

BUT THE PROTAGONIST FEELS THAT THE MEMORY HAS
BEEN IMPLANTED, AND IT MOVES THEM INTO A CERTAIN

DIRECTION. SO THAT'S SOMETHING.
GET READY FOR THE BIG

SURPRISE. YOU ARE
NOT YOU. YOU'RE ME.

Narrator: IN PHILIP DICK'S VISION OF THE
FUTURE, TECHNOLOGY HAS THE ABILITY TO CHANGE OUR

PERCEPTION OF TRUTH. HIS HERO CAN'T BE
SURE IF HE'S AN AVERAGE MAN WHO DREAMS OF

SECRET AGENT OR A SECRET AGENT PROGRAMMED TO
THINK HE'S NOT. WE TRIED AS HARD AS POSSIBLE

TO DO ONE THING, WHICH WAS HAVE TWO STORIES,
PARALLEL STORIES. ONE IS IT'S A DREAM, AND

EVERYTHING HAPPENS BASICALLY
BECAUSE THIS THING IS PUT IN HIS HEAD.

THE OTHER ONE, IT'S TRUE. AND WHAT WE TRY
TO DO IS HAVE THESE TWO PARALLEL STORIES

CONTINUOUSLY BELIEVABLE TILL
THE VERY END. Narrator: PHILIP K. DICK

PROPHECIZES A WORLD. RECENT BREAKTHROUGHS
IN NEUROSCIENCE SUGGEST THIS COULD

BE BIOLOGICALLY POSSIBLE. THE IMPORTANT
THING TO RECOGNIZE HERE IS THAT THAT

IMAGINED EXPERIENCE IS NOT ALL THAT
DIFFERENT FROM A REAL EXPERIENCE.

NEURONS ARE DISCHARGING IN CERTAIN PATTERNS,
IN PARTICULAR PARTS OF THE BRAIN GENERATING

BIOCHEMICAL ACTIONS. AND THOSE VERY
SAME PROCESSES ARE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU

ACTUALLY HAVE AN EXPERIENCE. NEUROSCIENTIST
STUDIES HOW THE BRAIN CATALOGS MEMORIES.

IN THE BRAIN, IT SEEMS THERE'S A PARTICULAR
MOLECULE THAT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MEMORY

STORAGE ACROSS LONG PERIODS
OF TIME. AND IT'S BY INTERFERING WITH

THAT PERPETUAL MACHINERY THAT YOU CAN CREATE,
DESTROY, ENHANCE, YOU KNOW, MANIPULATE

THE INFORMATION. Narrator: PHILIP K.
DICK IS NOT A SCIENCE WHO UNDERSTANDS

THE BIOMECHANICS OF MEMORY. BUT HE IS ABLE TO
IMAGINE THAT TECHNOLOGY MIGHT SOON BE ABLE TO

CHANGE PERCEPTIONS OF THE PAST. PERHAPS HIS
MIND TRAVELS THIS ROAD BECAUSE HIS OWN PAST IS A

BLUR OF REAL AND UNREAL. FULL OF
EVENTS THAT MIGHT NOT HAVE HAPPENED.

ONE THING IS CERTAIN. PHIL DICK'S INSIGHT
INTO THE FLEXIBLE NATURE OF REALITY ARE

PROPHETIC. HE ENVISIONS A DWIS THAT
WHO ALLOW PEOPLE TO ENTER AN UTTERLY

CONVINCING BUT ENTIRELY SIMULATED
WORLD. THE BOX IS AN EARLY EXAMPLE

OF VIRTUAL REALITY. WHEN PHIL DICK
WROTE IT, THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS

VIRTUAL REALITY, AND THE TERM ITSELF DID
NOT EXIST. AND SO FOR PHIL DICK WRITING IN

THE LATE '60s, HE WAS WRITING ABOUT
WHAT IF THE TV HAD TAKEN OVER OUR LIVES?

Narrator: DICK'S CONCEPTS MAY HAVE SEEMED
OUTLANDISH AT THE TIME, BUT TODAY THEY ARE AS

CLOSE AS YOUR VIDEO SCREEN. WE'RE ALREADY
STARTING TO BLUR THE LINE BETWEEN VIRTUAL

REALITY AND REAL REALITY. Narrator: AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-SAN DIEGO, THOMAS

DEFONTAE HAS DESIGNED A ROOM THAT TAKES VIRTUAL
REALITY TO THE NEXT LEVEL, THE STAR CAVE.

THE STAR CAVE IS A PLACE THAT SCIENTISTS,
MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS, ARTISTS, PEOPLE

FROM MANY DIFFERENT WALKS OF LIFE, COME TO
SEE THEIR 3-D IMAGERY AND TO BE INSIDE OF IT.

THE STAR CAVE IS THE TYPE OF ROOM THAT YOU
WALK INTO THAT HAS REAR-PROJECTED WALLS SO THAT

EVERY SURFACE IS AN IMAGE. WHEN YOU WALK IN
THE STAR CAVE, YOU PUT ON A HAT THAT'S GOT

SILVER BALLS ON IT. THIS ALLOWS THE CAMERAS
THAT ARE PUTTING OUT INFRARED LIGHT TO

TRACK WHERE YOU ARE. THEN YOU USE A WAND
IN YOUR HAND TO ESSENTIALLY CONTROL THE

DRIVE-AROUND JUST LIKE YOU USE A GAME
CONTROLLER. Narrator: THE STAR CAVE IS

MORE THAN A STUNNING VISUAL EXPERIENCE.
THERE ARE PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS

AS WELL. WE CAN DISPLAY OBJECTS
THAT CAN'T BE SEEN IN REALITY AND

THAT ARE VERY HARD TO IMAGINE. FOR INSTANCE,
PROTEIN STRUCTURES, AND VISUALIZING

THOSE THINGS IN VIRTUAL REALITY IS VERY VALUABLE
BECAUSE IT CAN GIVE SCIENTISTS A COMPLETELY NEW

UNDERSTANDING THAT THEY CAN'T OTHERWISE GET
FROM JUST LOOKING AT IMAGES, FOR INSTANCE.

Narrator: RECENTLY, ENGINEERS OF SAN
FRANCISCO'S BAY BRIDGE EMPLOYED THE STAR CAVE TO

EXAMINE THEIR DESIGN IN WAYS THAT WERE
UNIMAGINABLE BEFORE. IT ALLOWS THEM TO FIND ERRORS

IN THE MODELS EARLY ON WHICH CAN
THEN SAVE THEM MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.

FOR THEM, IT DOESN'T MATTER IT'S THE
STAR CAVE. WHAT MATTERS IS THEY GET TO SEE

WHAT ONLY THEIR MINDS CAN SHOW THEM
OTHERWISE. IN A FEW YEARS, WE'RE GOING TO

HAVE ENVIRONMENTS THAT ARE MUCH MORE REALISTIC
WHERE WE FEEL THE OBJECT THAT WE ACTUALLY TOUCH

AND MAYBE THE TEMPERATURE AND MAYBE THE
TEXTURE. AT SOME POINT THE USER WHO USES

THESE SYSTEMS WILL BE UNABLE TO DISTINGUISH
THE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT AND THE REAL WORLD.

Narrator: COULD VIRTUAL REALITY EVER BECOME
TOO YEAR? DICK IMAGINES IT TO FOOL PEOPLE.

HE ALSO SEES THE POTENTIAL THAT VIRTUAL REALITY
MIGHT BECOME AN UNHEALTHY ESCAPE FROM DAILY

LIFE. I THINK CERTAINLY
DICK SORT OF TOOK THAT UP.

AND THAT'S WHERE WE ARE TODAY. WE ARE
COMPLETELY OBSESSED BY CYBER EXPERIENCE.

WE ARE ALREADY SEEING THAT CHILDREN
CAN BE DRAWN INTO VIRTUAL REALITY AND MADE

ADDICTS. Narrator: AS TECHNOLOGY
CATCHES UP WITH PHILIP K. DICK'S

VISION, IT'S TOUGH TO THINK HOW THE
WRITER MIGHT REACT TO OUR PROGRESS.

I THINK PHILIP K. DICK, PART OF HIS LEGACY
IS FRANKLY A WARNING THAT IT'S VERY EASY TO

LOSE YOURSELF WHEN THE TECHNOLOGY
AROUND YOU IS BECOMING SO UBIQUITOUS AND

THERE'S AN INTERESTING DEBATE
THAT GOES ON IN A LOT OF HIS WORK.

WHERE WOULD YOU RATHER BE? WOULD
YOU RATHER BE IN THE HERE AND NOW?

OR WOULD YOU RATHER BE IN A POTENTIAL FANTASY
OF YOURS? AND IS THE FANTASY SOMETIMES

FRANKLY BETTER THAN KNOWING THE
REALITY? Narrator: DICK KNOWS THAT

WHEN TECHNOLOGY INVADES THE MIND,
EVEN OUR OWN THOUGHTS ARE NO ESCAPE.

IN THE 21st CENTURY, DICK'S
PARANOIA IS TRANSFORMING REALITY.

Narrator: IT'S 1971. PHILIP K. DICK IS
43 YEARS OLD AND LIVING IN NORTHERN

CALIFORNIA. GROUND ZERO FOR THE
COUNTERCULTURAL REVOLUTION OF

DRUGS, POLITICS, WAR, SEX AND
RELIGION. THE EARLY 1970s WAS A VERY

MUCH A TUMULTUOUS PERIOD. IN AMERICAN
LIFE, IT WAS THE NIXON ADMINISTRATION.

THERE WERE PARANOIA OF THE VIETNAM
WAR. IT FELT LIKE ANYTHING COULD

HAPPEN. IT INFLUENCED DICK AND YOU
COULD KIND OF SAY IT WAS A PHILIP K.

DICK MOMENT IN HISTORY. PHIL OPENED UP HIS
HOUSE TO YOUNG PEOPLE, SOME OF WHOM WERE

ACTIVE IN THE DRUG WORLD, OTHERS WHO WERE
JUST DISSIDENTS. THINGS WERE FALLING APART FOR

HIM. AND DRUGS WERE BEGINNING
TO HAVE THEIR INFLUENCE.

AND THEN SOME PECULIAR EVENTS BEGAN TO MAKE
HIM A LITTLE BIT MORE PARANOID THAN HE WAS

BEFORE. Narrator: DICK HAD
BEEN WRITING ABOUT MIND-ALTERING

DRUGS, REALITY, POLICE POWER AND
CORPORATE COVER-UPS SINCE THE 1950s.

NOW THE WORLD IS CATCHING UP WITH HIM, AND HE
SUSPECTS HE IS BEING TARGETED BECAUSE OF WHAT

HE KNOWS. PHILIP DICK CHANNELS
HIS PERSONAL FEARS INTO HIS ART.

HE PROJECTS HIS PARANOIA INTO A NEAR FUTURE
IN WHICH THE GOVERNMENT USES INVASIVE

TECHNOLOGY TO MONITOR THE
POPULATION. MAKING PRIVACY OBSOLETE.

THE RESULT IS 1977'S "A SCANNER
DARKLY." IT'S A GREAT PORTRAIT OF LIFE

IN THE EARLY '70s, AT LEAST LIFE
THAT PHIL LIVED IN THE EARLY 1970s.

Narrator: SOME OF THE SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGY
THAT DICK IMAGINES IN THE '70s IS NOW

IN USE. FOR BRAD BARKER,
PRESIDENT OF THE HALO CORPORATION

SPECIALIZING IN KIDNAP AND RESCUE AND
COUNTERTERRORISM, HI-TECH SURVEILLANCE IS A

NECESSARY REALITY OF MODERN
EXISTENCE. MANY COUNTRIES AND EVEN PRIVATE

CORPORATIONS NOW HAVE MAPPING
SATELLITES CAPABLE OF AERIAL SURVEILLANCE.

BUT THE MOST POWERFUL SPY SATELLITES
ARE BELIEVED TO BE THOSE BELONGING TO U.S.

INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES. TODAY SATELLITE
TECHNOLOGIES FROM SPACE CAN ZOOM ALL THE WAY

IN TO READ A NEWSPAPER AD, READ A LICENSE PLATE
OFF THE BACK OF A CAR, EVEN DOWN TO MILLIMETERS

OF VISIBILITY. Narrator: LIKE THE
UNDERCOVER COPS FROM "A SCANNER DARKLY,"

BARKER'S AGENTS ARE ARMED WITH HIGH-TECH
GADGETS. THIS IS AN ARTICULATING FIBER

OPTIC CAMERA. IT ALLOWS US TO POINT INTO
AREAS WHERE A CAMERA WOULDN'T NORMALLY

GO. WE USE VARIOUS TYPES
OF TELESCOPES, NIGHT VERSION,

THERMAL VISION, HYPER SPECTRAL,
MULTISECOND TRAL, SATELLITE IMAGERY.

NOT ONLY DO WE HAVE THE GEAR, BUT WE CAN
PUT IT ALOFT IN UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES.

YOU CAN'T SEE IT, YOU CAN'T HEAR IT, BUT WE CAN
SEE AND HEAR YOU. WE ARE RIGHT NOW IN THE MIDDLE

OF A TECHNOLOGICAL RENAISSANCE. IF YOU JUST
LOOK AT WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS

ON OUR COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF CELL PHONES,
IMAGINE WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH OUR GOVERNMENT

AGENCIES. Narrator: JUST AS DICK
FORESEES IN "A SCANNER DARKLY,"

THE SHEER VOLUME OF SURVEILLANCE
DATA BEING COLLECTED IS OVERWHELMING.

TO MAKE SENSE OF IT ALL, BARKER
COMES HERE. SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY'S

IMMERSIVE VISUALIZATION CENTER. RIGHT
NOW WE'RE IN THE VISUALIZATION LABORATORY.

IT'S A CONVERGENCE OF SURVEILLANCE
TECHNOLOGY AND HUMAN INTELLIGENCE THAT'S ALL

BROUGHT HERE INTO THIS COMMAND AND CONTROL
CENTER. YOU'D NORMALLY SEE THINGS LIKE

THIS IN THE SITUATION ROOM OR IN THE
PENTAGON. THE VIZ LAB IS LABEL TO GLEAN

BITES OF DATA AND TAKES ALL THAT DATA
AND DISPLAYS IT IN A GRAPHICAL FORMAT.

NSA, FBI, THEY'RE USING TOOLS JUST
LIKE THIS TO COMPLETE THEIR MISSION.

Narrator: WHETHER ALL THIS TECHNOLOGY IS
GOOD OR BAD DEPENDS ON YOUR PERSPECTIVE.

PHILIP K. DICK'S PROPHECY IS THAT IT
WOULD BE SUFFOCATING. A FORM OF PRISON.

A BARRIER TO FREE EXPRESSION AND
DISSENT. WHAT HE DOES NOT FORESEE IS THAT

SO MANY OF US WOULD BE WILLING
PARTICIPANTS. CATCH, CHAT, TWITTER, PAPER,

WIRELESS, E-MAIL, VIDEO, VOICE, IT'S ALL
SURVEILLANCE DATA. Narrator: YET FEW OF US SEEM

TO CARE THAT OUR COMMUNICATIONS
CAN BE MONITORED FOR GOOD OR ILL.

THE PROBLEM IS, TECHNOLOGY IS ADVANCING
FASTER THAN THE APTITUDE AND COMPREHENSION OF

THOSE THAT CONSUME IT AND HOW
TO DEFEND THEMSELVES WHILE USING IT.

Narrator: WHAT WOULD PHILIP K. DICK
THINK OF MODERN SURVEILLANCE CAPABILITIES?

IF DICK WERE ALIVE TODAY, I THINK HE WOULD BE
BOTH HORRIFIED AND TO A CERTAIN EXTENT PLEASED

BECAUSE ALL OF THESE THINGS THAT WE SEE HAPPENING
IN THE WORLD, HE REALLY SOLIDLY PREDICTED IN

ADVANCE. RAPID TECHNOLOGIES, A
SENSE THAT REALITY IS SHIFTING UNDER

OUR FEET. A WORLD THAT IS FAMILIAR
TO US. AND HE CAPTURED IT WELL IN

ADVANCE, SO THAT MAKES HIM A
PROPHET. Narrator: A DETAILED RECORD

OF YOUR MOVEMENTS, IDEAS, MISTAKES AND
OFFHANDED COMMENTS CAN NOW LIVE ON FOREVER

DIGITALLY. ONLINE FOR ALL TO SEE.
TECHNOLOGY HAS RENDERED YOUR

PRIVATE PAST AN OPEN BOOK. BUT THE PARANOID
SCIENCE FICTION OF PHILIP K. DICK GOES ONE STEP

FURTHER. IN HIS WORLD, NOT EVEN
YOUR FUTURE IS SAFE FROM PRYING EYES.

I'M PLACING YOU UNDER ARREST FOR THE FUTURE
MURDER OF SARA MARKS TAKING PLACE TODAY, APRIL

22nd, AT 0800 Narrator: IN 1974, PHILIP
K. DICK'S LIFE ENTERS A NEW PHASE

SET IN MOTION BY AN OTHERWORLDLY
ENCOUNTER. HE MOVED DOWN TO FULLERTON,

QUICKLY GOT MARRIED, HAD A KID. AND IT REALLY
REPRESENTED ONE OF THE MOST STABLE AND HAPPIEST

PERIODS OF DICK'S LIFE. Narrator: THEN
ONE DAY, THE SCIENCE FICTION WRITER HAS A

VISITOR. THE MOMENT IS BROUGHT
TO LIGHT BY FELLOW VETERAN OF '60s

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, ALTERNATIVE COMIC
ARTIST R. CRUM. PHIL DICK HAD A KNOCK AT THE

DOOR. HE ANSWERED IT, AND IT WAS
A YOUNG WOMAN WITH A CHRISTIAN

NECKLACE AROUND HER NECK THAT WAS
HANDING OUT SOME CHRISTIAN LITERATURE.

AND DURING THEIR CONVERSATION, A PINK
BEAM OF LIGHT WENT OFF IN PHIL DICK'S HEAD.

SHE WAS WEARING A GOLDEN FISH AND PROFILE ON
HER NECK LASS. THE SUN STRUCK IT, AND IT SHONE.

AND I WAS DAZED BY IT. AFTER THAT HE
HAD ABOUT 24 TO 48 HOURS OF HALLUCINATIONS.

IT WASN'T LIKE AN ALTERNATE
REALITY. IT WAS WHAT I CALL A

TRANSTEMPORAL CON STANCY, AN ETERNAL TRUTH WHERE
EVERYTHING WAS ALWAYS HERE AND WOULD ALWAYS

BE THAT WAY. Narrator: DICK
RECEIVED VISIONS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

THE PINK BEAM OF LIGHT HE THINKS IS
INTELLIGENCE. IT BRINGS HIM KNOWLEDGE,

SAVES HIS SON'S LIFE. PHIL TOLD ME HE WAS
SITTING THERE IN HIS APARTMENT LISTENING

TO "STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER" BY THE
BEATLES. HIS WIFE, TESS, IS CARING FOR

THEIR INFANT SON. ALL OF A SUDDEN HE
FELT THIS ENORMOUS SOURCE OF LIGHT HITTING

HIM AND THIS KNOWLEDGE HIT HIM THAT HE NEEDED
TO DO SOMETHING RIGHT AWAY TO RESCUE HIS SON.

HE GOT UP AND HE TOLD HER,
WOVE GOT TO GET HIM TO THE HOSPITAL.

HE HAS AHERN YA. I SAID, TESS, HE'S
GOT A BIRTH DEFECT, AND IT'S GOING TO

KILL HIM. HE HAS A RIGHT INGENUAL
HERNIA THAT'S POPPED THE HYDRO SEAL.

HE TOOK HIM IN, AND THAT WAS INDEED WHAT
WAS THE PROBLEM. Narrator: PHILIP DICK

BELIEVES IT GIVES HIM KNOWLEDGE OF
THE FUTURE. THE LAST RELIGIOUS VISION HE

HAD SHORTLY BEFORE HE DIED WAS OF A WORLD
BEING DESTROYED THROUGH ECOLOGICAL COLLAPSE.

AND THAT, UNFORTUNATELY, MAY BE HIS
GREATEST PROPHECY. Narrator: PHILIP K. DICK

EXPLORES THE RAMIFICATIONS OF KNOWING THE FUTURE
IN SEVERAL WORKS, INCLUDING HIS 1956 SHORT

STORY "THE MINORITY REPORT." IT DESCRIBES A
GROUP OF MUTANTS WHO HELP POLICE SOLVE CRIMES

BEFORE THEY OCCUR. THESE RARE INDIVIDUALS
KNOWN AS PRECOGS CAN SEE WHAT IS ABOUT TO

HAPPEN. PRECRIME, IN HIS SHORT
STORY, "MINORITY REPORT," THERE'S IN

NOTION THAT YOU CAN BE ARRESTED
FOR AND THAT YOU HAVEN'T DONE YET.

IF THE PRECOGS ENVISION THAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO
COMMIT A CRIME. Narrator: IF A CLASSIC, A COP

WHO SPECIALIZES IN PRECRIME FINDS HIMSELF
ACCUSED OF ONE. THE PRECOGS SEE HIM COMMIT A

FUTURE MURDER OF SOMEONE HE HASN'T EVEN
MET YET. THE MOVIE IS DIRECTED BY STEVEN

SPIELBERG. BUT A FEW YEARS EARLIER,
THE PROJECT WAS ON THE DESK OF PAUL

BEARHOVAN. THE COMPANY THAT I
WAS WORKING FOR OPTIONS "MINORITY

REPORT," AND WE WERE SUPPOSED TO DO THAT AS
A SEQUEL. THE FIRST ONE WAS ABOUT, IS IT A

DREAM OR IS IT REALITY? THE SECOND ONE WAS
IS OUR FATE PREDESTINED, OR CAN WE CHANGE

THE FUTURE WHENEVER WE WANT?
YOU CAN CHOOSE. Narrator: TODAY

GROUNDBREAKING CRIME PREVENTION TECHNOLOGY BRINGS
US EVER CLOSER TO THE WORLD OF THE MINORITY

REPORT. THERE ARE NOW TECHNOLOGIES
THAT CAN HELP PROTECT CRIMES IN

SPECIFIC AREAS. THEY HAVE TO DO WITH
STATISTICS OF ANALYZING WHERE CRIMES TOOK

PLACE BEFORE, AND THEN YOU CAN PREDICT WHERE
THEY'RE LIKELY TO TAKE PLACE IN THE FUTURE.

Narrator: POLICE IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, UTILIZE
CUTTING-EDGE, ANALYTIC SOFTWARE DESIGNED TO

PREDICT AND STOP CRIME BEFORE IT
HAPPENS. THIS PRECRIME TECHNOLOGY DOESN'T

USE CLAIRVOYANT USES. IT RELIES ON STATISTICAL
DATA TO CREATE A MAP OF FUTURE CRIMINAL

ACTIVITY. OFFICERS IN MEMPHIS
CREDIT IT WITH A 31% DROP IN SERIOUS

CRIME. PREVENTING
CRIME IS A GOOD THING.

BUT PHILIP K. DICK COULD ALWAYS SEE THE
DARK SIDE. T POTENTIAL FOR ANY SCIENCE TO

BE TAKEN TO EXTREMES. PRECOGNITION WAS
PART OF HIS NOTION THAT IF THE POLICE COULD

KNOW AHEAD OF TIME THE THINGS THEY WERE
GOING TO DO WRONG, THEN THEY COULD ARREST YOU

BEFORE YOU DID THE CRIME. SO FOR
HIM THIS WAS KIND OF A NIGHTMARE.

PRECOGNITION IS GOING TO BE HAPPENING
TECHNOLOGICALLY. AND THE QUESTION IS, HOW WILL WE

STAY FREE? WHEN THE CAMERAS ARE
EVERYWHERE AND THE POLICE WILL BE ABLE TO

ZOOM IN ON A CRIME, IN EFFECT, BEFORE
IT'S HAPPENED. Narrator: IN "MINORITY

REPORT," POLICE CHANGE FATE BY
PREVENTING WHAT IS DESTINED TO OCCUR.

EACH TIME A CRIME IS PREVENTED, AN ULTIMATE
REALITY EMERGES. A VERSION OF THE WORLD IN WHICH

THE CRIME NEVER HAPPENED. FOR DICK,
THE REALITY IS JUST ONE OF HIS LAYERS.

HE PLAYS AROUND WITH IT AND UNDERMINES IT AND
AND BEHAVIOR. IT'S THE OTHER WORLD, THE OTHER

POSSIBILITIES OF THE WORLD THAT THERE ARE OTHER
UNIVERSES THAT MIGHT BE THERE, BASICALLY ARE

DIFFERENT THAN THE ONE WE
NORMALLY HAVE. Narrator: PHILIP K. DICK

EXPLORES THE CONCEPTS OF ALTERNATE FUTURES
AND PASTS IN SEVERAL WORKS OF SCIENCE

FICTION. HE DEPICTS THE HORROR OF
TECHNOLOGY BREAKING OUR GRIP ON

TIME. BUT THERE'S ALSO A DESPERATE
HOPE IN THIS CONCEPT OF OTHER

WORLDS. PERHAPS SCIENCE CAN TAKE
HIM TO A PLACE WHERE HIS TWIN SISTER

NEVER DIED. Narrator: SCIENCE
FICTION AUTHOR PHILIP K. DICK WRITES

ABOUT THE FUTURE, BUT HE IS HAUNTED BY
THE PAST. HE IMAGINES THE TWIN SISTER WHO

DIED WHEN THEY WERE BOTH INFANTS.
AS AN ADULT, ALIVE AND HEALTHY

IN A MIRROR WORLD WHERE LIFE UNFOLDED
DIFFERENTLY. LIFE HASN'T TURNED OUT HOW HE

WISHED. IN HIS MID-30s AFTER WRITING
TEN NOVELS AND DOZENS OF SHORT

STORIES, HE BEGINS TO QUESTION THE CHOICES
HE'S MADE. SO HE GAVE UP WRITING.

HE WORKED IN HIS WOIF'S JEWELRY BUSINESS, HELPING
SET UP ANDICK JEWELRY WHICH IS REALLY NICE

HANDSMADE JEWELRY. Narrator:
THE JEWELRY BUSINESS IS REALLY MORE

LUCRATIVE THAN HIS WRITING, BUT HIS
OVERACTIVE MIND WON'T BE STOPPED.

HE THINKS ABOUT TWISTS OF FATE
THAT CAN SET HISTORY ON A NEW COURSE.

AND A NEW IDEA STARTS BREWING. AN AMBITIOUS,
COMPLICATED NOVEL OF INTERWOVEN PLOTS AND MULTIPLE

TIME LINES. HE WAS SUDDENLY POSSESSED
BY THE STORY OF THE MAN IN THE HIGH

CASTLE. Narrator: IN THIS BOOK,
REAL HISTORY MIXES WITH ALTERNATE

VERSIONS OF TODAY. A PARALLEL
UNIVERSE. IN "THE MAN IN THE HIGH

CASTLE," FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT
IS ASSASSINATED DURING THE DEPRESSION.

AMERICA IS LEFT HELPLESS WHEN WORLD WAR II
BEGINS, AND THE NAZIS AND THE JAPANESE IMPERIAL

ARMY SLICE AMERICA RIGHT IN
HALF. IT'S AN ALL EASTERN TIF

HISTORY WHERE YOU GO BACK IN THE PAST AND
POSTULATE SOMETHING DIFFERENTLY HAPPENED.

Narrator: IN 1963, "THE MAN IN THE HIGH
CASTLE" EARNS HIM ONE OF THE HIGHEST HONORS IN

SCIENCE FICTION. THE BOOK IS ABOUT
HOW CHANCE HELPED DETERMINE TO TRY TO

ANSWER THE PLOT. RATHER THAN ROLL
TWICE, HE CONSULTS AN ANCIENT CHINESE

METHOD OF DEFINING THE FUTURE. DICK POSES A
QUESTION, THEN TOSSES THREE BRAD COINS IN THE

AIR SIX TIMES. HE USES NUMBERS ON
THE COIN TO CREATE 1 OF 164 POSSIBILITIES.

HE LOOKS IT UP IN THE BOOK. THEN
HE WAS PLOT HIS NOVELS USING IT.

IF HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED NEXT, HE WOULD
STOP, THROW THE COINS AND CONSIDER AND TELL

PEOPLE THAT HE'D TELL THEM WHAT
TO DO. Narrator: IN EACH ALTERNATE

PATH LIES AN ALTERNATE REALITY.
IN THE BOOK IS A REALLY COOL THING.

WHICH IS INSIDE THAT WORLD, IN
WHICH THE ALLIES WON WORLD WAR II.

SO IT'S AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY WITHIN AN
ALTERNATIVE HISTORY. Narrator: PARALLEL UNIVERSITY

IS A QUINTESSENTIAL CONCEPT. 20 YEARS AGO IF
YOU WERE TO ASK A SCIENTIST ABOUT THIS, THEY

WOULD SAY PREPOSTEROUS. Narrator: HIS
VISIONS OF PARALLEL UNIVERSE HAVE BECOME

MORE ACCEPTING. NOW TAKE POSSIBILITY
THAT PERHAPS THERE ARE PARALLEL.

IN THE SUBATOMIC REALM, WE DEAL WITH
EERSZS ALL THE TIME. THEY CAN DISAPPEAR.

THEY CAN BE TWO PLACES AT THE SAME
TIME. THAT'S WHY WE HAVE LASER BEAM.

ELECTRONS CAN DANCE BETWEEN PARALLEL
UNIVERSES. AND IF ELECTRONS CAN DO IT, WHY

CAN'T WEE? ERNESTO STRENGTH
THEORY OR "N" BECAUSE IT POSITIVES THE

EXISTENCE OF PARALLEL DIMENSIONS,
Narrator: ALTHOUGH WE CAN'T

OBSERVE OR DIRECT, PARTERS OF AN ATOM MIGHT PASS
BETWEEN THEM. BUT THE NEW WRINKLE IN ALL THIS

IS THAT WE BELIEVE THERE ARE OTHER BUBBLES
OUT THERE, A MULTIVERSE OF PARALLEL UNIVERSE.

Narrator: EVEN THOUGH PHIL DICK
KNOWS VERY LITTLE ABOUT STRING THEORY.

WE MIGHT NOW CALL HIM A PROPHET, BUT IN HIS
LIFETIME, HE IS A POOR AUTHOR ON THE FRINGES OF A

GENRE THAT GETS LITTLE RESPECT. THEN SOMETHING
FICTION. SCIENCE FICTION GOES MAINSTREAM,

AND HOLLYWOOD Narrator: IN 1980,
PHILIP K. DICK ENTERS A NEW UNIVERSE.

ONE OF HIS NOVELS WAS BEING
ADAPTED INTO A MOVIE, "BLADE RUNNER."

OUR FIRST MEETING WAS, I THINK, TEMPERED
WITH A LITTLE BIT OF IRRITATION FROM HIM.

I DON'T THINK HE WAS NECESSARILY ALTOGETHER
HAPPY WITH THE ADAPTATION BECAUSE PHILIP DICK'S

WORK IS ALWAYS SO DENSE. AND
SCREENPLAYS TEND TO BE LESS DENSE.

SO HE MAY HAVE THOUGHT WHAT HE
WAS ABOUT TO SEE WAS THIS HIS DREAM?

BUT THEN HE SAW PARTS OF THE FILM, HE WAS
ACTUALLY STUNNED THAT COULD BE PUT ON FILM AND

LOOK SO REALISTIC. THE VISION OF WHAT
HE SAW I THINK IT WAS LARGER THAN HE

EXPECTED. AND SO THAT WAS A GOOD
MEETING. Narrator: JUST MONTHS LATER

AT AGE 53, PHILIP K. IN 1982, PHIL IS
BURIED NEXT TO HIS TWIN SISTER, JANE.

HIS LIFE WAS DEFINITELY CUT
SHORT. IF PHIL WOULD HAVE LIVED TO A

NORMAL SPAN, HE WOULD HAVE SEEN MOVIES
BASED ON HIS WORK, MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.

FOR DICK'S WORK HAD BEEN
CELEBRATED ONLY BY THE COUNTERCULTURE.

I THINK PHILIP DICK, IF HE WERE ALIVE TODAY,
WOULD BE VERY PLEASED AT THE WAY HE'S WORK HAS

BEEN TAKEN OFF IN. LAR CULTURE.
NOW AN AMBASSADOR TO THE ENTIRE

PLANET. Narrator: HE ONCE
STRUGGLED ON THE FRINGES.

BUT NOW PHIL I K. DICKEY. I WOULD
DEFINE THAT AS SURREAL SCIENCE FICTION.

DEEPLY FUNNY.
AT THAT POEMT WHEN ALL OF THE

KREE. THEY'RE TRYING TO MAKE
SENSE OF THE WORLD AND IT MAKES NO

SENSE.
THE WORLD KIND OF FEELS LIKE

THAT MOST TIMES. Narrator:
PHILIP K. DICK TRANSFORMS PARANOIA,

HALLUCINATIONS, IN AN ENDURING
BODY OF SCIENCE FICTION.

HIS WORK INSPIRES GENERATIONS OF
ARTISTS AND SCIENTISTS TO QUESTION REALITY.

PHILIP K. DICK HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN INSPIRATION
AND THE COMMUNITY CAN BE PROUD OF.

PHILIP'S WORK STILL CAPTURES OUR IMAGINATION
BECAUSE IN A WAY IT'S NO LONGER IMAGINATION.

IT'S REALITY. HE CHANGED HOW
WE THINK ABOUT MODERN TECHNOLOGY.

HE'S REALLY ONE OF THE BEST. HE MANAGED TO BE
CONCISE ENOUGH TO GET DOWN ON PAPER IN BETWEEN.

HIS WRITING WAS