Re:The growing science of memory manipulation
by sn41 on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @09:09AM
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"We can remember it for you wholesale" is the original short story, I think. Philip K. Dick's works taken as a whole, are mind-boggling. At some point, I want to work through Ubik.
Stanislaw Lem, the great Polish sci-fi author of works like Solaris, called Western sci-fi "A Hopeless Case with exceptions" - one of the very very few exceptions was Philip K. Dick. There's also a nice essay on Philip K. Dick specifically. [1], [2]
[1] https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/5/lem5art.htm [2] http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?253191
Re:The growing science of memory manipulation
by pmoriarty on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @05:05PM
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"At some point, I want to work through Ubik."
I consider Ubik PKD's greatest and most accessible work. It's a really quick, easy read. Do yourself a favor and pick it up now!
Re:The growing science of memory manipulation
by sn41 on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @08:17AM
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Thanks for the suggestion. I was afraid that it will be too dense. I'll give it a shot.
Re:The growing science of memory manipulation
by lr4444lr on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @08:06AM
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Upvote for referencing "Total Recall".
My favorite line in the film was actually a clever aside, when Quaid is being solicited by one of the mutant clairvoyants with an offer to tell him his future, his sardonic rejoinder is, "how about the past?".
For almost two decades now I believed that "Total Recall" was mostly science fiction, that almost none of it will happen in real life anytime soon. Looks like I was wrong. [1] Philip K. Dick was a genius, with Paul Verhoeven not too far behind.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIzFuycHn_0