The second coming of Philip K. Dick

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Director John Woo's movie 'Paycheck', based on a 1953 short story by Philip K. Dick, depicts the writer's hallucinatory tales that make for suspense with an epistemological twist. The short story sold by Dick to a pulp magazine for less than $200, is expected to generate revenue close to $2 million to his estate.

Criticism and interpretation, Paycheck (Motion picture), Woo, John

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The secret life of a blog post: mapping the journey from servers to scrapers to suits - to the world

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A blog gets passed through a vast and recursive network of software agents after it gets posted by a blogger. The blog is searched by data miners, text scrapers, and search engines before reaching the readers and corporations who are interested about people's opinion of their products.

Manufacturing processes, Goods & services distribution, Channels of Distribution, Data Processing, Electronic publishing, Production processes, Distribution, Electronic publication, Electronic data processing, Company distribution practices, Weblogs, Blogs

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Close encounters of the worst kind

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Spielberg is a novice director; he worked with the people whom he first employed. The new software Zeno used by him dragged the audiences into the theatres, which introduced special effects in his movies. .

Prepackaged software, Software Publishers, Motion Picture and Video Industries, Motion picture & video production, Motion Picture Production, Motion Picture and Video Production, Motion Picture and Video Distribution, Motion Picture & TV Production, Graphics Software Pkgs (Micro), Services for Movie, TV Production, Postproduction and Other Motion Picture and Video Industries, Services allied to motion pictures, Film Repackagers, Usage, Technology application, Movie production, Graphics software, Motion pictures, Spielberg, Steven

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