Philip K. Dick spent his career writing about unreliable memories, artificial people, altered realities, surveillance, and the uneasy question of whether the world around us is really what we think it is.

After finishing the full Philip K. Dick episode of State of the Unknown, host Robert Barber kept researching. What he found only made Dick more fascinating: a writer whose ideas spread far beyond the page and whose work became deeply woven into modern popular culture.

In this episode of State of the Unknown: Fragments, Robert looks at who Philip K. Dick really was, why his imagination still feels so relevant decades later, and why the questions he was asking in the 1950s and 1960s can sound surprisingly familiar today.

And then there’s 1974.

Something happened to Dick that changed the way he thought about reality for the rest of his life.

That story is told in Episode 65: Fringe Theories: Philip K. Dick | “We Are Living in a Computer-Programmed Reality.”

So was Philip K. Dick simply an extraordinarily imaginative writer who was decades ahead of his time?

Or was he somehow seeing a future the rest of us hadn’t reached yet?

Topics: Philip K. Dick, science fiction, Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, artificial intelligence, AI, simulation theory, altered reality, false memories, surveillance, paranormal, unexplained experiences, 2-3-74

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