• perishthethought@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I’m reading a book by Philip K. Dick (“Ubik”), where everything in the fictional future is coin operated: doors, toasters, showers, everything.

    Feels like he either predicted this world we live in, or caused it.

      • perishthethought@lemm.eeEnglish
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        3 days ago

        I’m like 3/4 of the way through it and yes. I’m surprised at all the turns it’s taken already and just how floaty the characters are. Probably a lot of parallels with how I understand the author’s life got in the 60s. ☮

    • yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      4 days ago

      If you think that’s amazing there was this guy in the mid 1800s that was a penpal of president Lincoln that predicted the hell we currently live in.

      • Acamon@lemmy.world
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        4 days ago

        Who was that? Or any more details? I’m intrigued!

        Edit: do you just mean marx? That’s less intriguing, not wrong, but less intriguing.