Adam Roberts

Beta-Life (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Computers are changing. Soon the silicon chip will seem like clunky antique amid the bounty of more exotic processes on offer. Robots are changing too; material evolution and swarm intelligence are creating a new generation of devices that will diverge and disperse into a balanced ecosystem of humans and robjects (robotic objects). Somewhere in between, we humans will have to change also... in the way we interact with technology, the roles we adopt in an increasingly intelligent environment, and how we interface with each other. The driving motors behind many of these changes will be artificial life (A-Life) and unconventional computing. How exactly they will impact on our world is still an open question. But in the spirit of collective intelligence, this anthology brings together 38 scientists and authors, working in pairs, to imagine what life (and A-Life) will look like in the year 2070. Every kind of technology is imagined: from lie-detection glasses to military swarmbots, brain-interfacing implants to synthetically grown skyscrapers, revolution-inciting computer games to synthetically engineered haute cuisine. All artificial life is here.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Comma Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781910974742
• Artikelnr.: 62770394

Autorenporträt

Prof. Martyn Amos was awarded the world's first PhD in DNA computing; he is currently a senior lecturer in computing and mathematics at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Ra Page is the editor of The City Life Book of Manchester Short Stories and the founder and managing editor of Comma Press. He has edited several anthologies published by Comma, including Lemistry: A Celebration of the Work of Stanislaw Lem and Litmus: Short Stories from Modern Science. He has written for the Guardian, the New Statesman, and the Times, and was the recipient of a Jerwood Foundation Bursary. Between 2000 - 2003 he was deputy editor of City Life and a director of the Manchester Poetry Festival.