Philip K. Dick:
Science Fiction Technology and Ideas
Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago in 1928; he died of heart failure in 1982. He won the Hugo for The Man in the High Castle and the John Campbell award for Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said. Many of his short stories have been made into movies; Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? (Bladerunner) and We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (Total Recall).
Invention/Technology Source Work (Publication Date)

Preserving Machine
A device that would create a unique animal from a piece of classical music.

The Preserving Machine (1953)

Prethink - seeing the future
The ability to predict the future in a routine perceptual manner.

The Golden Man (1954)

Probe Screen Hood - block the penetration of the mind
A device that blocks attempts to see into the contents of the brain mind.

The Hood Maker ('Immunity') (1955)

Protine
A mutant algae that can be engineered to look and taste similar to normal food.

Solar Lottery (1955)

Protophason Amplifier
Detects brain activity of those in half-life.

Ubik (1969)

Pry-Vie (Robotic Detective)
A robotic private eye; autonomic detection services.

Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964)

Psycho-Lease Encephalic Gadget
A device that provided the conviction that a faked scene was, in fact, real.

Galactic Pot-Healer (1969)

Puddinged
A poorly formed 3D printed copy, with an interior that was a mass of malformed material.

Pay for the Printer (1956)

Rabbit-Paper - pregnancy test strip
A paper pregnancy test that showed immediate results.

The Game Players of Titan (1963)

Rapid-Transit Hover Blimp
Public transportation for a paranoid age.

Galactic Pot-Healer (1969)

Raw Material-Tropic
Moves towards desirable raw materials.

Autofac (1955)

Reality Tape
The medium upon which the life experience of an electric ant - a robotic person - is presented.

The Electric Ant (1969)

Relay - the total experience of mankind
A central information system used to coordinate all of human culture and technology.

Souvenir (1954)

Remote Control Taxicab
A cab that is piloted by a remote operator.

The Unreconstructed M (1957)

Replicant - an artificial human
An android; an artificial human being.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)

Reporting Machine
A robotic roving reporter.

The Simulacra (1964)

Retinal Vid-Screen - implanted news screen
A tiny display surgically implanted directly in the retina of the eye.

Sales Pitch (1954)

Rhetorizer - the writer's assistant
A computerized assistant for writers.

The Penultimate Truth (1964)

Robant
A robotic servant.

The Impossible Planet (1953)

Robant Bill Collector Automated bill collection
A robot designed to collect overdue bills, no matter what.

Now Wait For Last Year (1966)

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