This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's speech "The Android and the Human", given at the Vancouver SF Convention at the University of British Columbia, in March 1972.

It focuses specifically on Dick's views on the use of drugs, both street drugs and prescribed drugs, the latter of which he views as more problematic, and used to reduce people to analogues of androids

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