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Author: Christopher Cardinal Publisher: ISBN: 9781940100005 Category : Languages : en Pages : 660
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Three short stories from a brighter future tell how the leaders of today could use capitalism to help solve some of the world's toughest problems... and make a fortune in the process.
Author: Christopher Cardinal Publisher: ISBN: 9781940100005 Category : Languages : en Pages : 660
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Three short stories from a brighter future tell how the leaders of today could use capitalism to help solve some of the world's toughest problems... and make a fortune in the process.
Author: Kris Schnee Publisher: ISBN: 9781519770561 Category : Languages : en Pages : 90
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Digital Paradise. Some Restrictions Apply.2040: The video game "Thousand Tales" has become a world. If you can afford to have your brain sliced and scanned, you can live there, maybe forever. Its ruling AI, Ludo, exists to help all her players have fun.For Alma, "uploading" to Ludo's world was a better deal than dying of disease. She's got a new body, magic, uploader and native AI friends, and a country back in the real world that still needs her. Can she reconnect to Earth and make herself useful? She'd better be careful, though, because her new home isn't quite the heaven she expected.Set in the world of "Thousand Tales: How We Won the Game".
Author: Kai-Fu Lee Publisher: Crown Currency ISBN: 0593238311 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 497
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How will AI change our world within twenty years? A pioneering technologist and acclaimed writer team up for a “dazzling” (The New York Times) look at the future that “brims with intriguing insights” (Financial Times). This edition includes a new foreword by Kai-Fu Lee. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Financial Times Long before the advent of ChatGPT, Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan understood the enormous potential of artificial intelligence to transform our daily lives. But even as the world wakes up to the power of AI, many of us still fail to grasp the big picture. Chatbots and large language models are only the beginning. In this “inspired collaboration” (The Wall Street Journal), Lee and Chen join forces to imagine our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by AI. In ten gripping, globe-spanning short stories and accompanying commentary, their book introduces readers to an array of eye-opening settings and characters grappling with the new abundance and potential harms of AI technologies like deep learning, mixed reality, robotics, artificial general intelligence, and autonomous weapons.
Author: Evan Innes Publisher: Bantam Books ISBN: 9780553262049 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 352
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The new settlement on the planet Omega faces a severe challenge from a mysterious alien city, hidden by a blanket of fog and protected by powerful, advanced weapons
Author: Bruce Piasecki Publisher: Bookbaby ISBN: 9781667823461 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 244
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From Thaddeus Rutkowski's five page introduction to 2040: According to one defination, a fable is a story that conveys a moral. In this book, there are numerous lessons about what is valuable (friends, family, and the freedom to work as one wishes). This ability to work as one dreams is well dramatized in the final parts of this book. There are also warnings about what can devalue our lives (a reliance on exclusive technological communications, a bowing to the ever-watchful State). As with all good fables, these lessons apply to all of us. As with most speculative fiction, Piasecki is not writing about some strange future worlds; he is offering ideas, through metaphor and storylines, taht apply directly to our present world. This remarkable projection to 2040 is absolutely a stunningly sustained technique to help us see through today. The book entertains you in 10 chapters, totally 224 pages, with 22 woodcut illustrations of the characters as rendered by a world famous artists of the recent past.
Author: Cory Doctorow Publisher: Blackstone Publishing ISBN: 1504757629 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 388
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"Cory Doctorow straps on his miner's helmet and takes you deep into the caverns and underground rivers of pop culture, here filtered through SF-colored glasses. Enjoy."-Neil Gaiman New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow has been hailed as one of the freshest voices in science fiction, and this collection of intriguing novellas is yet another reason why. Have you ever wondered what it's like to live through a bioweapon attack or to have every aspect of your life governed by invisible ants? In Cory Doctorow's collection of novellas, he wields his formidable experience in technology and computing to give us mind-bending sci-fi tales that explore the possibilities of information technology-and its various uses-run amok. "Anda's Game" is a spin on the bizarre new phenomenon of "cyber sweatshops," in which people are paid very low wages to play online games all day in order to generate in-game wealth, which can be converted into actual money. Another tale tells of the heroic exploits of "sysadmins"-systems administrators-as they defend the cyberworld, and hence the world at large, from worms and bioweapons. And yes, there's a story about zombies, too. "He sparkles! He fizzes! He does backflips and breaks the furniture! Science fiction needs Cory Doctorow." -Bruce Sterling, award-winning author of Schismatrix Plus and The Difference Engine
Author: Elliot Perze Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 180
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This is a good read with a nice overarching storyline. The story has less going on in it that the first one in terms of action but it makes for a very nice bit of character study and slice of life reading set in a future world impacted by virtual reality and artificial intelligence. Highly recommend for people who like the sci-fi and litrpg genres. A side-story set in the world of "Thousand Tales: How We Won the Game", but there's no need to read the series in order. This new edition of "Reconnection" is greatly revised and expanded.
Author: Claire Boyle Publisher: McSweeney's Quarterly Concern ISBN: 9781944211707 Category : Climatic changes Languages : en Pages : 0
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This special issue is wholly focused on climate change with original speculative fiction from twelve noted contributors in collaboration with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Global in scope, each story is focused on one part of the dire warnings issued by the 2018 Intergovernmental Report on Climate Change. Featuring Tommy Orange, Elif Shafak, Luis Alberto Urrea, Asja Bakic, Rachel Heng, and more.
Author: Christopher Cardinal
Author: Christopher Cardinal
Author: Kris Schnee
Author: Kai-Fu Lee
Author: Evan Innes
Author: Conrad Ozóg
Author: Bruce Piasecki
Author: Conrad Ozog
Author: Cory Doctorow
Author: Elliot Perze
Author: Claire Boyle