This Perfect Day
Computers in LiteratureChip fights for freedom from a mechanized, chemically controlled world which stifles nature and human individuality
Chip fights for freedom from a mechanized, chemically controlled world which stifles nature and human individuality
The story is about a robot who achieved consciousness at 3:34 pm and fell in love by 4:00 pm with Ellen, a brilliant and beautiful woman from the team that had programmed the robot.
Must-read play looks to a future in which all workers are automatons. They revolt when they acquire souls (i.e., when they gain the ability to hate) and the resulting catastrophe make for a powerful theatrical experience.
Invented by Alice Lu in her Standford lab, "edgar," an artificial intelligence program, grows into something far beyond Alice's--or anyone eles's--control, in a novel that explores the many implications of the technology we create
His characters are rich and engaging, and his prose is razor sharp. This is a wonderful book for any computer fanatic or any young person who enjoys a great read.
When computer programming genius Brewster Billings invents a program that enables him to communicate with Lingo, his PC, he is ill-prepared for Lingo's growing hunger for power, as it taps into the country's most powerful computer networks
Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy is now available in a complete hardcover set.
In the future world of the Sprawl, an urban complex that extends from Boston to Houston, where a sentient computer database known as the Cyberspace matrix dominates humanity's fate, a corporate mercenary, awakening in a reconstructed body, ...
In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.
Lije Baley and R. Daneel Olivaw, a robot, investigate the murders of a famous robotocist, an isolated inhabitant of Solaria, and Jander Panell, an advanced robot
After the outbreak of a brutal civil war in the American Midwest stemming from the Daemon's civilization-rebuilding activities, reluctant Daemon operative Pete Sebeck leads a small band of enlightened humans in an effort to protect the new ...
In a near-future run by thousands of autonomous computer programs that control the world's wireless networks, a dormant program activates in the wake of a legendary game designer's premature death and launches a sinister effort to dismantle ...