Common to many of Dick's short stories were settings in which the outgrowth of modernity is a world where that which is natural is in ruin, and what is artificial is reshaped through science into a fantastically high tech form.
Yet the international press fawns over Foster's bold high-tech forms.
Known for his high-tech forms, Mr. Foster is not likely to design an interior that will blend quietly into its surroundings.
Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at American University, said the decision is more than simply a warning to government officials employing high-tech forms of government surveillance.
I would even argue that this is a perfect system for making molds for less high-tech forms of manufacture.
Efforts to deregulate businesses, weaken government institutions and laws that offer valuable services and protection to working and poor Californians will be presented as new high-tech forms of governance or of bringing the expertise of Silicon Valley to bear on the state's problems.
Although there is a tendency to focus only on high-tech forms of protection equipment, it is important not to forget the basics of infection control procedures such as glove changing and hand hygiene.
There have been significant developments in the technology which result in more complex shapes with a higher yield stress so that cold-formed sections represent a particularly high-tech form of constructional steelwork.
The six-legged structure, conceived by a Danish art collective called N55 during a residency at the Wysing Arts Center in Cambridge, England, was imagined as a "high-tech form of nomadic living," said Ion Soervin, one of the group's founders.
With cooling, the cells can manage an output of 70 watts a square centimetre a record, according to IBM, and a demonstration that plumbing, too, can be a high-tech form of engineering.
But as far as I can tell, buying and selling huge volumes of securities in a matter of seconds is just another high-tech form of speculation that is only remotely connected to the fundamental purpose of financial markets, which is to raise and allocate capital efficiently for businesses that need it.
