Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick was a revolutionary writer that completely changed the face of science fiction to what it has become today. He started writing when the ideas he was writing about were supposed to be perfect. While the movies were made after Philip had started writing his books, Star Wars and 2001: A Space Odyssey are examples of what everyone thought of technology, space travel, and overall the future. Robots were subservient to intelligent, living life forms and worked perfectly doing whatever their jobs were. Space travel was fast, comfortable, and easy. Philip made everything abnormal, everything had flaws, one would even question free will. Prior to Philip K. Dick, the Minority Report would have been just about stopping crime before it happened, not about the corruption that came from using the precogs. We would not have movies scifi movies such as Judge Dredd and the Matrix which are heavily influenced by his work.