Philip K. Dick: Science Fiction Technology and Ideas

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)
Cephalotropic Dart A slim, short-range device that homes in on the brain wave pattern of the target.	Lies, Inc. (1964)
Chest-Lens Part of an automatic photograph-and-send system.	War Veteran (1955)
Cholinesterase-Destroying Gas Horrific anti-personnel poison.	Lies, Inc. (1964)
Civic Notification Distorter - bit-rot weaponry A device that subtly damages databases full of government information.	The Zap Gun (1965)
Claws (Attack Robot) - screamers! Autonomous guard robots that attack living tissue.	Second Variety (1953)
Cold-Beam Puts a cloud of extreme cold around the target.	War Veteran (1955)
Cold-Pac Bin A special coffin-sized chamber used to maintain half-life.	Ubik (1969)
Cold-Pack - death temporarily denied Technology for indefinite cold storage of human beings.	Dr. Futurity (1960)
Commercial Fly An autonomous, fly-sized manufactured creature that presents commercial advertisements.	The Simulacra (1964)
Commute Disk Flying autonomous commuter vehicle.	The Chromium Fence (1955)
Commute Ship Spacecraft used for traversing daily grind between Earth and the planet you work on.	Sales Pitch (1954)
Commuter Cooling Unit - portable air conditioning A portable air conditioner for commuters.	The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965)
Control Harness Connects to the brain and nervous system of a host organism for control purposes.	A Game of Unchance (1964)
Creditor Jet-Balloon - bane of debtors A small, hovering device that hounds debtors.	Lies, Inc. (1964)
Dashboard TV A television placed in the dashboard of your car or similar vehicle.	The Chromium Fence (1955)
Death-Rattle A device that sends a signal upon brain death of the user.	The Unreconstructed M (1957)
Death-rattle File A cache of information set to destroy itself upon the death of its owner.	The Zap Gun (1965)
Dermal Spray A color coating for the skin, applied as a jet of vapor.	Dr. Futurity (1960)
Dermal-Mist Spray Very refreshing for suburbanites.	Prominent Author (1954)
Disease Circuit A feature of robotic animals which indicated a need to repair by emulating animal sickness.	Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)

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