We Can Remember It For You Wholesale
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We Can Remember It For You Wholesale
| Author | Philip K. Dick |
|---|---|
| Published | 1966 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Philip K. Dick’s 1966 novelette about a clerk who buys an implanted memory of a trip to Mars he never took, and finds it colliding with memories that were already there — the basis for Total Recall. Short enough for one sitting, it sets up the question his work keeps returning to: if the record can be written, what is left to verify it against. |
Where I heard about it
- The a16z infrastructure team — on the a16z Infra Reading List, S tier (“Must reads”), under Philip K. Dick’s selected works; they cite “editing human memories” as one of his genuinely new ideas.
About this edition
A magazine novelette, not a standalone book — reading copies are collections, most often the second volume of the Collected Stories, which takes its title from this piece.
Connections
- a16z Infra Reading List — the list this came from.
- a16z — the firm whose infrastructure team curates it.
- Philip K. Dick — the author.
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — the other Dick work here about tests for what is genuinely yours.
- Memory — the concept the story is built on.
- Historical Futurism — the research lens.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.