The Father-Thing isn't much more than an Invasion of the Body Snatchers story. If you want to add a P.K. Dick story, I would choose Pay for the Printer which explores the consequences of 3D printers (although in this case the printers are alien beings.)

+1 Insightful to the above.

If I throw the ball to first base then who gets it?

Once you attain a certain level of wealth, money is no longer money. It's just weight that you throw around.

The last valuable commodity shall be fame.

As far as I know the only way to go back in time involves the use of wormholes. Where you arrive in the past depends on the position of the other end of the wormhole. If you want to go to a specific time and place you have to hope someone created a wormhole then and there, and then brought one of the ends into the future using time dilation.

Eventually the pile of corpses will provide sufficient material to create a viable biosphere.

A thousand quatloos on the newcomer!

Correction, I meant 'ADD', not 'PLUS'. It's been over 20 years since I've programmed in COBOL and I've done my best to block it out of my mind.

Here I am pointing out that what many people consider to be a problem with COBOL, that it is too wordy, has in fact a functional purpose. Although, using the word PLUS for '+' did go a bit too far. I have to assume most business managers know what '+' means.

I think we can blame all the faults of COBOL on the fact that she wanted it to be human readable by business managers. What would your programming language look like if the Pointy-Haired Boss had to be able to understand it?

Give everyone a robot. That robot can go earn a living for them.

Disclaimer: this is a joke. Please don't tell me how this is not practical.

Does this mean they will be able to vote?

It still won't work for giraffes stretching their necks.

I blame Game of Thrones. Although you'd think Joffrey would be example enough to discourage monarchy.