One Nice Thing
One nice thing about flying so much is I actually get time to catch up on reading, particularly the stack of magazines I get at the airport (or borrow from the lounge). Wired has great article about Phillip K. Dick, the author Blade Runner and Minority Report (amongst many others).
Favourite quote -
“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.”