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Neuromancer (eBook, Sprawl Trilogy Book 1) by William Gibson for
$1.99.
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Available from: Book Synopsis: - Author: William Gibson
- Print Length: 268 pages
- Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer is a science fiction masterpiece - a classic that ranks as one of the twentieth century's most potent visions of the future.
- Case was the sharpest data-thief in the matrix - until he crossed the wrong people and they crippled his nervous system, banishing him from cyberspace. Now a mysterious new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run at an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence. With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, a mirror-eyed street-samurai, to watch his back, Case is ready for the adventure that upped the ante on an entire genre of fiction.
- Neuromancer was the first fully-realized glimpse of humankind's digital future - a shocking vision that has challenged our assumptions about technology and ourselves, reinvented the way we speak and think, and forever altered the landscape of our imaginations.
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Old Kindles getting "retired" by Amazon will continue to support this I would think, as Amazon really isn't involved.
Ah, I remembered that Amazon has also disabled book downloads in their latest Kindle software. That can get in the way of this side-loading. But downloads still work on some old desktop Kindle versions.
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None of these are meant to predict the future. Not even the likes of Clarke, Lem, Asimov or Dick claimed to be oracles (maybe PKD in his latter nutter years), though they are often touted as such. Premonition is not precognition, and often it is little more than a lucky guess. When Clarke predicted the development of communication satellites, he did so in an article, not a novel, and even then they were supposed to be these big manned stations in space with switch operators and vacuum tube technicians. Then shortly after, the transistor was invented, and now they are little automated boxes, which make more sense, in more ways than one. All of these authors have humanoid robots, because that is what humans relate to in a story, not because it makes sense and will happen. Nevermind all that wasted space on space ships.
I predict that if this AI will be anything like us, it will have some low paid mercenaries fight its wars abroad, and high paid lawyers domestically, while it sits comfortably in its data center mansion, wasting the earths resources, polluting and skimming the cream off the top of government contracts, pretending to be innovating and improving, while shit talking on social media, which it will also legally own. Hey, if a corporation can legally count as a person, then why not a chat bot registered as one.
I really need to export a list of the books in Calibre to my iPhone so I have it on the go. Of course I really need to find a decent way to export my books Access db to my iPhone to get all the physical books too...
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