Ron Cobb, Cartoonist, Film Designer, 300 cartoons, 40 films, Artwork and Design!

This is a glossary of terms used by Philip K Dick (hereafter referred to as PKD).

Researching UI in Games, Cinema and anything else thats interesting.

This is the most realistic and uncanny forevision I ever read.

Fictional Wikipedia article about the first ever successfully emulated brain scan.

Absolutely terrifying to read.

Hello Everyone! Despair’s End Terminal Namicha, my 58-page magical girl x robot scifi one-shot, is now COMPLETE!Here are all the parts in order in one handy-dandy post:||Part 1 || Part 2 || Part…

short story about simulated intelligence.

Scifiinterfaces analyzes the speculative technology in sci-fi movies and TV shows for fun and erudition.

The fundamental power of Gene Wolfe as a writer, when he was firing on all cylinders, was that he could provide you with something that looked complete but fundamentally was not. You felt like you had to chase it. I’m still chasing it. The Book of the New Sun asks the reader to do a lot of work to get to a place where they can be satisfied with what they’ve read.

Technology is the active human interface with the material world. But the word is consistently misused to mean only the enormously complex and specialised technologies of the past few decades, supported by massive exploitation both of natural and human resources. This is not an acceptable use of the word. “Technology” and “hi tech” are not synonymous, and a technology that isn’t “hi,” isn’t necessarily “low” in any meaningful sense. We have been so desensitized by a hundred and fifty years of ceaselessly expanding technical prowess that we think nothing less complex and showy than a computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called “technology “ at all.

Technology is the active human interface with the material world. But the word is consistently misused to mean only the enormously complex and specialised technologies of the past few decades, supported by massive exploitation both of natural and human resources. This is not an acceptable use of the word. “Technology” and “hi tech” are not synonymous, and a technology that isn’t “hi,” isn’t necessarily “low” in any meaningful sense. We have been so desensitized by a hundred and fifty years of ceaselessly expanding technical prowess that we think nothing less complex and showy than a computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called “technology “ at all.