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Author: Michael Pryor Publisher: Random House Australia ISBN: 0857982761 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 290
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The Bourne Identity meets The Terminator in this fast-paced technothriller for boys aged 10 to 14. Unknown to the world, a superintelligence has emerged and it wants to eliminate fifteen-year-old Bram Argent ...The superintelligence can control any machine connected to the net, and it uses them as its unstoppable agents to achieve its ends. And the superintelligence is paranoid. Controlling the entire world is its only way to ensure its own existence. Bram's mother is a high-level computer scientist. She's been investigating the possibility of the emergence of a superintelligence and she has evidence copies of which she has given to her son and husband for safekeeping. But the superintelligence has become aware of her and decided she needs to be eliminated. Bram's mother escapes, warning her son and husband to do the same. Now Bram must flee and find his parents while being hunted by every machine on the planet. His friend Stella is caught up in the pursuit and becomes a target because of their friendship. Together, they must survive in an interconnected world where any machine might instantly become a lethal predator ...
Author: Michael Pryor Publisher: Random House Australia ISBN: 0857982761 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 290
Book Description
The Bourne Identity meets The Terminator in this fast-paced technothriller for boys aged 10 to 14. Unknown to the world, a superintelligence has emerged and it wants to eliminate fifteen-year-old Bram Argent ...The superintelligence can control any machine connected to the net, and it uses them as its unstoppable agents to achieve its ends. And the superintelligence is paranoid. Controlling the entire world is its only way to ensure its own existence. Bram's mother is a high-level computer scientist. She's been investigating the possibility of the emergence of a superintelligence and she has evidence copies of which she has given to her son and husband for safekeeping. But the superintelligence has become aware of her and decided she needs to be eliminated. Bram's mother escapes, warning her son and husband to do the same. Now Bram must flee and find his parents while being hunted by every machine on the planet. His friend Stella is caught up in the pursuit and becomes a target because of their friendship. Together, they must survive in an interconnected world where any machine might instantly become a lethal predator ...
Author: Daniel P. Dennies Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1491700017 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 239
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Twelve-year-old Jordan Steel moves with his family from California to the City of Materials in Ohio, where science and technology permeate all aspects of daily life. At his new school, the Roberts Academy, Jordan discovers the secret world of the Robotics Club and the awe-inspiring Robot Wars. Even though underclassmen are rarely allowed to join the Robotics Club and participate in the Robot Wars, Jordan gets in with his new friends, the Silver triplets. They soon forge a team called the Warriors of the Old Republic. Paris is the electronics wiz and Friday is the welding guru. Goldie brings magnetics to life, and Nick is a computer ace. Together, they learn to depend on each others strengths to build a robot to compete in the Robot Wars. But not everyone wants an underclassman team in the Robot Wars. Jordan and his teammates cant be sure who their real friends are as they try to understand their new school, the secret Robotics Club and their competition. Even darker than some of their competitors intentions, however, is a secret housed in the halls of the Roberts Academy a secret that seems drawn to Jordan and his friends.
Author: Nicholas Haring Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1329218167 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 287
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Almost six months after the Battle of Grantsburg, things for the Dark Horse Commando Squad are rather quiet. The strenuous training for the next expectant offensive operation has begun to wear on them. Captain Fischer, the commander of the squad, sends some on leave, while he tries to get the attention of his superiors that they're ready to go. One of those on leave is Lieutenant Madison Brookes, who is heading back to New Omaha to visit her mother. But while there, she learns from her mother, a High Council member in the UN, of a new secret weapon about to be revealed at a bond drive in a couple of days. Could this new secret weapon be the trump card humanity desperately needs?
Author: Seth J. Frantzman Publisher: Bombardier Books ISBN: 1642936766 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 210
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In the battle for the streets of Mosul in Iraq, drones in the hands of ISIS terrorists made life hell for the Iraq army and civilians. Today, defense companies are racing to develop the lasers, microwave weapons, and technology necessary for confronting the next drone threat. Seth J. Frantzman takes the reader from the midnight exercises with Israel’s elite drone warriors, to the CIA headquarters where new drone technology was once adopted in the 1990s to hunt Osama bin Laden. This rapidly expanding technology could be used to target nuclear power plants and pose a threat to civilian airports. In the Middle East, the US used a drone to kill Iranian arch-terrorist Qasem Soleimani, a key Iranian commander. Drones are transforming the battlefield from Syria to Libya and Yemen. For militaries and security agencies—the main users of expensive drones—the UAV market is expanding as well; there were more than 20,000 military drones in use by 2020. Once the province of only a few militaries, drones now being built in Turkey, China, Russia, and smaller countries like Taiwan may be joining the military drone market. It’s big business, too—$100 billion will be spent over the next decade on drones. Militaries may soon be spending more on drones than tanks, much as navies transitioned away from giant vulnerable battleships to more agile ships. The future wars will be fought with drones and won by whoever has the most sophisticated technology.
Author: Charles Soule Publisher: Marvel Entertainment ISBN: 1302501054 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 163
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Collecting Darth Vader (2017) 1-6. From acclaimed writer Charles Soule comes a brand-new, exhilarating series exploring Darth Vader's early history. Picking up directly where Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith ends, follow Vader as he receives his legendary red lightsaber and witness Vader's rise to power as a Dark Lord of the Sith!
Author: Andrew Cockburn Publisher: Verso Books ISBN: 1839763655 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 289
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Why does the United States go to war?—a leading Harper’s commentator on U.S. foreign affairs searches for answers. A withering exposé of runaway military spending and the private economic interests funding the U.S. war machine—for fans of Rachel Maddow and Democracy Now! America has a long tradition of justifying war as the defense of democracy. The War on Terror was waged to protect the West from the dangers of Islamists. The US soldiers stationed in over 800 locations across the world are meant to be the righteous arbiters of justice. Against this background, Andrew Cockburn brilliantly dissects the true intentions behind Washington’s martial appetites. The American war machine can only be understood in terms of the private passions and interests of those who control it—principally a passionate interest in money. Thus, as Cockburn witheringly reports, Washington expanded NATO to satisfy an arms manufacturer’s urgent financial requirements; the US Navy’s Pacific fleet deployments were for years dictated by a corrupt contractor who bribed high-ranking officers with cash and prostitutes; senior Marine commanders agreed to a troop surge in Afghanistan in 2017 for budgetary reasons. Based on years of wide-ranging research, Cockburn lays bare the ugly reality of the largest military machine in history: as profoundly squalid as it is terrifyingly deadly.
Author: Nick Dyer-Witheford Publisher: U of Minnesota Press ISBN: 1452942706 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 462
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In the first decade of the twenty-first century, video games are an integral part of global media culture, rivaling Hollywood in revenue and influence. No longer confined to a subculture of adolescent males, video games today are played by adults around the world. At the same time, video games have become major sites of corporate exploitation and military recruitment. In Games of Empire, Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter offer a radical political critique of such video games and virtual environments as Second Life, World of Warcraft, and Grand Theft Auto, analyzing them as the exemplary media of Empire, the twenty-first-century hypercapitalist complex theorized by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. The authors trace the ascent of virtual gaming, assess its impact on creators and players alike, and delineate the relationships between games and reality, body and avatar, screen and street. Games of Empire forcefully connects video games to real-world concerns about globalization, militarism, and exploitation, from the horrors of African mines and Indian e-waste sites that underlie the entire industry, the role of labor in commercial game development, and the synergy between military simulation software and the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan exemplified by Full Spectrum Warrior to the substantial virtual economies surrounding World of Warcraft, the urban neoliberalism made playable in Grand Theft Auto, and the emergence of an alternative game culture through activist games and open-source game development. Rejecting both moral panic and glib enthusiasm, Games of Empire demonstrates how virtual games crystallize the cultural, political, and economic forces of global capital, while also providing a means of resisting them.
Author: Nicholas Haring Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1304834611 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 423
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The war between humans and robots has been going on for over 40 years. The war had been stalmated, but now the robots have devised a new way of attacking. Can the humans overcome insurmountable odds when they are thrown into the fray?
Author: Michael Pryor
Author: Michael Pryor
Author: John Frederick Charles Fuller
Author: Daniel P. Dennies
Author: Nicholas Haring
Author: Seth J. Frantzman
Author: Charles Soule
Author: Andrew Cockburn
Author: Lorettus Sutton Metcalf
Author: Nick Dyer-Witheford
Author: Nicholas Haring