It’s the best immersive sim ever made, and the predictions it made way back in 99 are pretty amazing. There’s a sick conversation with an AI in a side room in the last level that is one of the best video game dialogues IMO.
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JC Denton: I don’t see anything amusing about spying on people.
AI: Human beings feel pleasure when they are watched. I have recorded their smiles as I tell them who they are.
JC Denton: Some people just don’t understand the dangers of indiscriminate surveillance.
AI: The need to be ovserved and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms.
JC Denton: Electronic surveillance hardly inspires reverence. Perhaps fear and obedience, but not reverence.
AI: God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgment, and punishment. Other sentiments toward them were secondary.
JC Denton: No one will ever worship a software entity peering at them through a camera.
AI: The human organism always worships. First it was the gods then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment.
JC Denton: You underestimate humankind’s love of freedom.
AI: The individual desires judgment. Without that desire, the cohesion of groups is impossible, and so is civilization. The human being created civilization not because of a willingness but because of a need to be assimilated into higher orders of structure and meaning. God was a dream of good government. You will soon have your god, and you will make it with your own hands.
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It’s the best immersive sim ever made, and the predictions it made way back in 99 are pretty amazing. There’s a sick conversation with an AI in a side room in the last level that is one of the best video game dialogues IMO.
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This comes up a lot in science fiction circles: did PKD predict the future, or did he invent it?
Much of his work seems to have been the basis for technological revolution.
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Ah thanks for the vivid trip down memory lane. It’s sad you have to really search hard to find such pearls nowadays.
That one was really good. I’m impressed by the level of insight here. Feels like we were a smarter species back in 2000.