Byron Rizzo

Polypticon, Part I (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Before artificial intelligence dominates (even more) the world, who will write its code?

The decentralized and autonomous philosophy of blockchain and the Internet, applied to massive social control, in a hard science fiction novel full of puppets and puppeteers trying to move the strings.

In a world where the Internet has changed all social interactions, the thought of creating a technological tool for population control is more science than fiction. But also a story that by definition must be plausible. Bringing utopia closer to our reality, asking if it can become a sinister dystopia just by taking a few wrong turns.

Will technocracy be the political solution or another way of control?

Its story will be told through the epistolary format prevailing in the 21st century, that of chats, voice messages, and conversations in anonymous forums. Archives of digital culture, which are embodied in different actors such as programmers, journalists, and politicians. It is their interactions that will shape or limit the capabilities of this AI with the chances of being a new virtual God.

Polypticon collects in its chapters the reactions, negotiations, and experiences between antagonistic ways of understanding the world. From the anachronisms of traditional politics and media to Internet experts; both virtuous and toxic users, and new forms of human interaction. Both socially, politically, technically, and ethically. The logical result of raising an ambitious software, based on blockchain principles, global outsourcing, and open source. The thin line between monitoring and commanding, expressed in the line of code that will program the definitive AI.

Will hackers and influencers, statesmen and programmers, stalkers, and celebrities agree? More importantly, will that artificial intelligence be allowed to be controlled by humans?

The answer, in this series of novels too close to reality in a time of pandemics, institutional instability, the predominance of social networks, and promises as volatile as cryptocurrencies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Byron Rizzo
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798230152699
• Artikelnr.: 73429429

Autorenporträt

Hi, I'm Byron Rizzo. I am an independent Argentinean writer born in Neuquén, in the North of Patagonia and South of the rest of the world, a land full of stories and lacking people.

I came into the world in the allegorical year 1990. The influence of the decade can be intuited in every interest, taste, and lyrics of my authorship. From the literary presence of magical realism to the patronage of Japanese anime. I have been writing or trying to (with results at the reader's discretion) since a very young age.

My published books deal with related, contemporary topics, and walk between genres. Science fiction, cyberpunk culture, fantastic tales of terror adapted to an era almost without secrets to the naked eye, and other concerns of current cyberspace. I seek to write about the time we have placed in to live, finding like the masters of literature before me the magic and mysteries hidden in the machines.

Starting in 2020, I began publishing those same concerns in book format, being the first Videogames & Addiction: Game Over. An essay and anecdote about my great hobby and art of the new century. At the end of that same year the first fiction to see the light was Polypticon, a (no longer so) dystopian epistolary novel through chats and messages on forums. That fiction was soon accompanied by works such as El Sonido, a novel about isolation and obsession. Conoces a Tsuki-chan?, which deals with human-digital transmigration. Or VA-Tek, a transhumanist Neo-Gothic literary experiment mixing alchemy and quantum computing. All of them live in the same expansive universe, in which I plan to continue publishing books.

I appreciate you getting to this point. I invite you to follow my path and value my books, letting me become another secondary character in the narrative of your life. One that I hope you enjoy and enriches your own story.