Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction (British Library Science Fiction Classics): 7 - Brossura

Mike Ashley; Ambrose Bierce; Adeline Knapp; Elizabeth Bellamy; Michael Williams; S. Fowler Wright; E. M. Forster; Harl Vincent; J. J. Connington; Isaac Asimov; C. L. Moore & Henry Kuttner; Brian W. Aldiss; Will F. Jenkins; Arthur C. Clarke

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ISBN 10: 0712352422 ISBN 13: 9780712352420

Casa editrice: WordUnited Ltd, 2019

Riassunto

Technological advance is never straightforward. A man is murdered by an automaton built for chess. A computer system designed to arbitrate justice develops a taste for iron-fisted, fatal rulings. An AI governing what we now know as an internet wreaks havoc on society after removing all forms of censorship. Assembled with parts from the late 19th century to the 1960s, this new collection of classic stories warns of the possible threats, both comic and severe, of a world in which human and machine live side by side. A delightfully, and worryingly, prescient selection for today's world in which robotic coexistence is passing with each day from speculation to reality.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Mike Ashley is the author and editor of more than one hundred books, and is one of the foremost historians of popular fiction. His British Library Science Fiction Classics anthologies include Lost Mars: The Golden Age of the Red Planet and The End of the World and Other Catastrophes. His multi-volume history of science fiction magazines is published by Liverpool University Press.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: WordUnited Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0712352422
• ISBN 13: 9780712352420
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352
• Redattore: Mike Ashley
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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