A few days ago Google launched a new tool, the Books Ngram Viewer, with it you can visualise the rise and fall of concepts across 5 million books and 500 years!
When I read about this new tool I inmediatly thought about running a query about programmed reality, here are some interesting graphs I got with the new Ngram Viewer.
You can run your own queries at
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/
"We are living in a computer programmed reality."
- Philip K. Dick, 1977