Posted Aug 10, 2026 at 10:13 PM UTCEExternal LinkThis one is for my fellow Dickheads…A really excellent essay about how Philip K. Dick predicted our current day, “filled with deranged billionaires, machines that claim consciousness, hallucinated worlds and political breakdown. Musk and his brethren seem more like escapees from this universe than the Asimovian super-geniuses they imagine themselves to be.”Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.Elizabeth Lopatto