![]() ![]() Dick has just published The Man in the High Castle, and the full-fledged LSD epidemic is just around the corner. ![]() Sounds familiar? Please, click “LIKE” if it does.īut this is the sixties, Philip K. His boss, though, thinks this would be the perfect tool to win an election and seize power. Hall thinks his simulation would be a great way to anticipate problems and help make the real world a better place. ![]() Douglas Hall, the novel’s main character, is a computer scientists whose work is to build, by way of a super-computer called Simulacron-3, an exact replica of the world in which the reactions of virtual persons to that damn toothpaste would be recorded and then we could put down those endless polls. This is how corporations fix their products, this is how politics are decided. As you stroll the sidewalk, someone might come to you with a notepad, flash a badge and proceed to ask your opinion on that particular toothpaste. Galouye’s 1964 proto-cyberpunk novel Simulacron-3 takes place in a world where opinion polls are mandatory. ![]()
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