"The Philip K. Dick Offical Site has opened: relevant not just because the movie Paycheck is coming out this month (based on a short story of his), but because we live in a Dickian world. As he put it, "We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudorealities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives. I distrust their power. It is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing."

Sources
Philip K. Dick “Official” site
http://www.PhilipKDick.com/

The Second Coming of Philip K. Dick
By Frank Rose
Wired, Issue 11.12 - December 2003
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.12/philip.html
The inside-out story of how a hyper-paranoid, pulp-fiction hack conquered the movie world 20 years after his death.

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