Comments on: PKD, Adapted http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/07/23/pkd-adapted/ faults | sins | abuses Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:28:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Machina Memorialis » Blog Archive » Link Roundup: Manuscript Found in Bog, PKD, and Digital Memoirs http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/07/23/pkd-adapted/#comment-34359 Machina Memorialis » Blog Archive » Link Roundup: Manuscript Found in Bog, PKD, and Digital Memoirs Wed, 26 Jul 2006 02:39:51 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/07/23/pkd-adapted/#comment-34359 [...] Apropos to Collin’s and Mike’s reviews of A Scanner Darkly, was the discussion of Philip K. Dick on Talk of the Nation today. I wasn’t able to listen to most of it, so I need to listen to it on the web (and I really want to hear what Jonathan Lethem has to say — his Gun, with Occasional Music is one of the best Dickian novels I’ve read). I do have one complaint, however, one of the guests — I think it was Marshal Fine, responded to a question about Dick’s skepticism of technology by stating that technology often dehumanizes us. Specifically, he brought up cell phones, Blackberries, email, and the like and said, “It’s not people talking to people but machines talking to machines.” Are hand-written letters and books okay because they’re machines talking to people? I’m not taking issue with Dick’s representation of technology but with the comment itself. The day cell phones on conversations with other cell phones with no human agency or prior programming — and I’m not a data exchange, but a conversation about their day, what they’ve seen, who they went out with, how horrible we human owners are, that’s the day I’ll say that we have machines talking to machines. But even then it won’t be dehumanizing. [...] [...] Apropos to Collin’s and Mike’s reviews of A Scanner Darkly, was the discussion of Philip K. Dick on Talk of the Nation today. I wasn’t able to listen to most of it, so I need to listen to it on the web (and I really want to hear what Jonathan Lethem has to say — his Gun, with Occasional Music is one of the best Dickian novels I’ve read). I do have one complaint, however, one of the guests — I think it was Marshal Fine, responded to a question about Dick’s skepticism of technology by stating that technology often dehumanizes us. Specifically, he brought up cell phones, Blackberries, email, and the like and said, “It’s not people talking to people but machines talking to machines.” Are hand-written letters and books okay because they’re machines talking to people? I’m not taking issue with Dick’s representation of technology but with the comment itself. The day cell phones on conversations with other cell phones with no human agency or prior programming — and I’m not a data exchange, but a conversation about their day, what they’ve seen, who they went out with, how horrible we human owners are, that’s the day I’ll say that we have machines talking to machines. But even then it won’t be dehumanizing. [...]

]]> By: mike http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/07/23/pkd-adapted/#comment-34090 mike Tue, 25 Jul 2006 02:10:52 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/07/23/pkd-adapted/#comment-34090 For me, Keanu was, er, less bad. Downey, of course, has his own history, and was wonderful. And yeah, Kirill, that moment was priceless -- that logic of the moment that seems, at the moment, so incontrovertible. For some, as you say. For me, Keanu was, er, less bad. Downey, of course, has his own history, and was wonderful. And yeah, Kirill, that moment was priceless — that logic of the moment that seems, at the moment, so incontrovertible.

For some, as you say.

]]> By: pi http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/07/23/pkd-adapted/#comment-34077 pi Tue, 25 Jul 2006 00:12:13 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/07/23/pkd-adapted/#comment-34077 I saw it yesterday. I went into it not having read the story or with any idea it was going to be animated. It dragged in places, I thought, and Keanu is as bad an actor animated as not, but it was interesting. Robert Downey, Jr. was riveting (if an animation can be riveting). I saw it yesterday. I went into it not having read the story or with any idea it was going to be animated. It dragged in places, I thought, and Keanu is as bad an actor animated as not, but it was interesting. Robert Downey, Jr. was riveting (if an animation can be riveting).

]]> By: Kirill http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/07/23/pkd-adapted/#comment-34009 Kirill Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:04:45 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2006/07/23/pkd-adapted/#comment-34009 Didn't you know that the throttle screw turns the other direction when you travel South?" Very interesting movie. But not for everyone. Didn’t you know that the throttle screw turns the other direction when you travel South?”

Very interesting movie. But not for everyone.

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