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"I can't tell whether or not there's going to be a Singularity. I don't really believe the rapture of the nerds stereotype..."
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This device may remind some readers of Google News or other such sources - but Dick was thinking about it in the early 1950's. The word "homeopape" is an abbreviation; see also homeostatic newspaper.
At this point in the novel, Joe Chip is sitting in his elegant hotel room which were hung with "great hand-printed drapes of a neo-silkscreen sort that depicted man's ascent from the unicellular organisms of the Cambrian period to the first heavier-than-air flight at the beginning of the twentieth century."
Here is another short quote from The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrytch:
See also personalized news from Hugo Gernsback's 1911 novel Ralph 124c 41+. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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