Somewhere Philip K. Dick is smiling as he reads 'Time Out Of Joint' on his iPhone Kindle app

The reason?

Because the world within our world he foresaw a half-century ago — one where "reality" is simply an ultra-high-speed calculation and rendering in real time of all possibilities and events past, present and future — is now tangible, in the form of pages in a book that magically appear from nowhere as you slide your finger across the iPhone screen.

Look at the screen a second: nothing but the single page there.

Yet all the ones before and those to follow are... where?

In there?

Yes— but not that you can see until you swipe your finger.

So where are they in the meantime?

Waiting, that's where.

In the form of grist for the calculation mill.

Same as it ever was.