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As you may have read, we took advantage of a preview of WIRED NextFest 2005 at Navy Pier this morning. While it seems that a more appropriate title would be "NowFest" (don't get us wrong, there are plenty of interesting exhibits, it just wasn't the mind-blowing glimpse into the future we'd thought it'd be), one particular exhibit had quite an effect on us. Together Hanson Robotics, the University of Memphis FedEx Institute of Technology and the Automation and Robotics Research Institute of University of Texas at Arlington have created a "robotic likeness" of sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick, and the robot makes its debut at NextFest. Those familiar with Dick's work will appreciate the appropriateness of PKD as the subject of the exhibit as most of his novels explore the effects of technology on human identity.