Wetware

2007-12-18 Fiction

Author : Craig Nova
Release : 2007-12-18
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 154/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Wetware written by Craig Nova. This book was released on 2007-12-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a programmer for Galapagos Wetware, Hal Briggs is responsible for writing the genetic code for simple, efficient creatures to be employed in menial jobs–sweeping streets or washing dishes. But the demands for “wetware” are changing, and Briggs is given a project that calls for more sophisticated models: clients are demanding more human appearance and behavior. As the project progresses, Briggs finds himself endowing the new models with more than the specifications dictate, giving them distinct personalities and talents and highly developed acumens. When two of his pet projects, Jack and Kay, escape, Briggs reexamines their codes and makes a terrifying yet provocative discovery. From Craig Nova, a master of the modern novel, comes a tale eerie in its vision of a future not far off, of a world precariously close to today’s.

Wetwares

2003 Technology & Engineering

Author : Richard Doyle
Release : 2003
Genre : Technology & Engineering
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 096/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Wetwares written by Richard Doyle. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mind of the machine, the body suspended in time, organs exchanged, thought computed, genes manipulated, DNA samples abducted by aliens: the terrain between science and speculation, fraught with the possibility of technological and perhaps even evolutionary transformations, is the territory Richard Doyle explores in Wetwares. In a manner at once sober and playful, Doyle maps potentials for human transformation by new ecologies of information in the early twenty-first century. Wetwares ranges over recent research in artificial life, cloning, cryonics, computer science, organ transplantation, and alien abduction. Moving between actual technical practices, serious speculative technology, and science fiction, Doyle shows us emerging scientific paradigms where "life" becomes more a matter of information than of inner vitality--in short, becomes "wetwares" for DNA and computer networks. Viewing technologies of immortality--from cryonics to artificial life--as disciplines for welcoming a thoroughly other future, a future of neither capital, god, human, nor organism, the book offers tools for an evolutionary, transhuman mutation in the utterly unpredictable decades to come.

Cognitive Science

2021-09-16 Psychology

Author : Jay Friedenberg
Release : 2021-09-16
Genre : Psychology
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 178/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Cognitive Science written by Jay Friedenberg. This book was released on 2021-09-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cognitive Science provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the study of the mind. The authors examine the mind from the perspective of different fields, including philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, networks, evolution, emotional and social cognition, linguistics, artificial intelligence, robotics, and the new framework of embodied cognition. Each chapter focuses on a particular disciplinary approach and explores methodologies, theories, and empirical findings. Substantially updated with new and expanded content, the Fourth Edition reflects the latest research in this rapidly evolving field.

The Ware Tetralogy

2019-04-02 Fiction

Author : Rudy Rucker
Release : 2019-04-02
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 398/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Ware Tetralogy written by Rudy Rucker. This book was released on 2019-04-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rucker’s four Ware novels—Software, Wetware , Freeware , and Realware—form an extraordinary cyberweird future history with the heft of an epic fantasy novel and the speed of a quantum processor. Still exuberantly fresh despite their age, they primarily follow two characters (and their descendants): Cobb Anderson, who instigated the first robot revolution and is offered immortality by his grateful “children,” and stoner Sta-Hi Mooney, who (against his impaired better judgment) becomes an important figure in robot-human relations. Over several generations, humans, robots, drugs, and society evolve, but even weird drugs and the wisdom gathered from interstellar signals won’t stop them from making the same old mistakes in new ways. Rucker is both witty and serious as he combines hard science and sociology with unrelentingly sharp observations of all self-replicating beings. This classic series well deserves its omnibus repackaging, particularly suitable for libraries." — Publisher's Weekly. "Rudy Rucker is one of the modern heroes of science fiction, one of the original cyberpunks. The early cyberpunks only had a few writers who could be meaningfully called punks — writers like John Shirley and Richard Kadrey — but there was only one who could truly be called cyber: Rudy Rucker. Rucker is a mad professor, a mathematician and computer scientist with a serious, scholarly interest in the limits of computation and the physics and mathematics of higher-dimension geometry. But that’s just about the only thing you can describe as 'serious' when it comes to Rucker. He’s a gonzo wildman, someone for whom 'trippy' barely scratches the surface. His work is shot through with weird sex, weird drugs, weird brain chemistry, and above all, weird science." — Cory Doctorow

Seek!

1999-05-28 Philosophy

Author : Rudy Rucker
Release : 1999-05-28
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 399/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Seek! written by Rudy Rucker. This book was released on 1999-05-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays and memoirs collected in Seek! trace Rudy Rucker's trajectory through the final decade of the second millennium. His topics include artificial life, chaos, the big bang, Pieter Brueghel, the church of the subgenius, live sex, mathematics, science fiction, and TV evangelism. A computer scientist and programmer, Rucker is an articulate, engaging guide to the world on either side of the computer screen.

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