What we really need today, it seems, is a visionary with the imagination of a Philip K. Dick to realise what the spreadsheet of personal robotics might be.

如今我们真正需要的似乎是一位拥有菲利普•k•迪克的想象力而又有预见力的人，来弄清楚个人机器人的电子表格是什么。

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On the table, body parts of a singing robot, from a collaboration with musician David Byrne, surround the head of an android version of science fiction writer Philip K. Dick.

桌子上堆放着一个机器歌手的身体部件，机器人的头被围在中间。 它的形象原型是科幻小说家Philip K. Dick。

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Among other achievements, he was the one who convinced author Philip K. Dick to option the novel in the first place.

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Central to the film (and Philip K. Dick's original story) is the idea of Precrime -- the ability to foresee a crime and prevent it from happening.

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This sort of thing is much better accomplished in novels (alternative histories such as Philip K. Dick's "The Man in the High Castle") or movies ("mockumentaries" like "This Is Spinal Tap").

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