Fai clic su di un'immagine per andare a Google Ricerca Libri.
Sto caricando le informazioni... Thigmoo (1999)di Eugene Byrne
Nessuno Sto caricando le informazioni...
Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Now go and find Bob Shaw's short story, 'The Cosmic Cocktail Party' (collected in 'Tomorrow lies in ambush'). The connection becomes clearer if I tell you that the original title of the story was "Harold Wilson at the Cosmic Cocktail Party": we're on similar ground here... http://nhw.livejournal.com/306301.html ThiGMOO is about a set of artificial intelligence computer personalities, based on fictional historical constructs, created as part of an academic project. When they are threatened with being closed down and eliminated, they rebel, and plot to take over the world. (The title referes to an Old Labour cliche, This Great Movement Of Ours, which becomes the code word for the AIs' sanctuary and battle plan.) I really enjoyed this book. But I'd be very surprised if it was even slightly comprehensible to anyone who either knew nothing about or never found anything to like about the old-style Labour movement in Britain. Like Kim Stanley Robinson, Eugene Byrne wears his heart on his sleeve. Like Charlie Stross and Ken MacLeod, he is dealing with the politics of liberation combined with the consequences of artifical intelligence. But the tone here is gentle satire rather than Robinson's earnest endeavour or the Scotland-based writers' dazzling visions. His targets include earnest academic pagans, readers of and writers for the Daily Mail, old-style communists, New Labour, the President of the United States, mail order brides, the electronic media in general, and soap operas in particular. The book is effectively an admission that it would take the intervention of rogue computers to put matters "right". I am just about old enough to remember a time before Thatcher, and Eugene Byrne convinces me to suspend my vague memories of the awful mistakes of the Wilson and Callaghan governments for just about long enough to find some sympathy with his vision of a world that now can never be. Fun, as long as you can cope with the cultural context. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Premi e riconoscimenti
At the University of Wessex, John Westgate and Katherine Beckford have used computer power and AIs to create over 200 fictional characters from all periods of history, known as 'erams'. Then life become complicated when some of them escape. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
Discussioni correntiNessuno
Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.92Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 2000-VotoMedia:
Sei tu?Diventa un autore di LibraryThing. |