There was a scene in one of his short stories in which the man's work setting involved him sitting in a cubicle (before cubicles were really an office phenomenon) pushing and pulling an array of tubes in a certain order depending on what he was trying to do. The tubes transmitted information.
Rather than using the transmission of info to do his actual work, he was using them to play games and communicate with other tube-pullers.
Now he didn't get the "desktop" right or anything, but the image of a person sitting in a cubicle using his work equipment to slag off talking to distant people and playing games is startling accurate to today's modern "white collar" worker on the internet.
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Reply to i was reading a short story by Philip K Dick and was amazed by how modern this felt. Feels like an accurate description of generative AI we're currently playing with by debil_666
There was a scene in one of his short stories in which the man's work setting involved him sitting in a cubicle (before cubicles were really an office phenomenon) pushing and pulling an array of tubes in a certain order depending on what he was trying to do. The tubes transmitted information.
Rather than using the transmission of info to do his actual work, he was using them to play games and communicate with other tube-pullers.
Now he didn't get the "desktop" right or anything, but the image of a person sitting in a cubicle using his work equipment to slag off talking to distant people and playing games is startling accurate to today's modern "white collar" worker on the internet.