tech
This one is for my fellow Dickheads…
A really excellent essay about how Philip K. Dick predicted our current day, “filled with deranged billionaires, machines that claim consciousness, hallucinated worlds and political breakdown. Musk and his brethren seem more like escapees from this universe than the Asimovian super-geniuses they imagine themselves to be.”
TL;DR
- Philip K. Dick's writings are seen as predictive of the current era.
- The current world is described as having 'deranged billionaires, machines that claim consciousness, hallucinated worlds and political breakdown'.
- Prominent tech figures are compared to characters from Philip K. Dick's work rather than perceived geniuses.
- The essay critiques the self-image of Silicon Valley leaders.