Friday, June 3 2011
Days Till Retirement: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep #23
There's a cognitive dissonance between Parker's adaptation of Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and Ridley Scott's BladeRunner, because Parker's adaptation is a direct adaptation of each word in Dick's original text.
Thursday, May 13 2010
Paranoid Android: Is Music the Opiate of the iPod-Owning Masses?
Wherein our curmudgeonly record shop owner realizes that his store with its bins full of vinyl was his own personal iPod long before the iPod was ever invented.
Wednesday, March 18 2009
Future Imperfect by Jason Vest
Dickian, like Kafkaesque, is shorthand for events that share the mood of the author’s oeuvre. In Dick’s case: paranoia, fried existentialism, and way-down-the-rabbit-hole reality shifts.
Sunday, December 2 2007
The Stories Industrial Designs Tell
The Dyson Airblade is launched in Sydney and the wild new world 21st century design writers must come to grips with.
