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In what would be a milestone for any evil, monopolistic corporation, Google has earned the official disapproval of Philip K. Dick—or at least, the estate of the long-dead sci-fi author. The point of contention: Google's new Nexus One smartphone, whose name, says the Dick estate, was stolen from the Nexus-6 cyborgs of Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, on which the classic '80s film Blade Runner was based. Google denies this. Hmmm … what are they trying to hide? If this were one of the author's mind-bending tales, layers of false reality would be stripped away to reveal that the Nexus One is really just an iPhone inside, and that Google's market-dominating search capabilities have been powered by Yahoo! all along.
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