Even before a Nigerian with Al Qaeda links tried to blow up a Northwest Airlines jet headed to Detroit, travelers could see we had made no progress toward a technologically wondrous Philip K. Dick universe.
Maureen Dowd in her op-ed piece for the New York Times, wondering why our airport security isn’t more technologically advanced. Memo to Maureen: when attempting to use a sci-fi writer’s name as a shorthand for a vision of the future, it’s a good idea to actually be familiar with the writer’s work. Some would say that “a Philip K. Dick universe” is the last thing we want airport security to turn into. (via mrgan)
Wouldn’t it be great if we could live in a William Golding society as well? Maybe a Bradbury literary culture?
