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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Gibson has long been one of my favorite writers, both stylistically and topically. Agency did not disappoint. The emergence of artificial intelligence has been a perennial topic for Gibson, and it appears again here. If this topic appeals to you, as well, I would suggest that [a:Robert J. Sawyer|25883|Robert J. Sawyer|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1543370297p2/25883.jpg]'s WWW trilogy beginning with [b:Wake|12114375|Wake (First 25,000 words)|Robert J. Sawyer|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/50x75-a91bf249278a81aabab721ef782c4a74.png|4466559] is an even more satisfying treatment. ( ) In this universe somehow or other one timeline seems to dominate and people can create 'stubs' -- but the stubs are REAL -- and when things go wrong, the planet and every living thing on it will suffer, so there are those who try to 'manage' the stubs. To combat all this one of these 'agents' has loosed an AI who can think and act for herself in order to see if that might make a positive difference. The tension, I think, is embedded and implicit -- the amorality of 'gaming' versus the, uh, realness of reality -- people have lost their grip on the difference. We can't manage ourselves, basicall, we're wayyy too irrational. It's not stated explicitly, but that's the message. The second half gets more exciting qua story. Gibson as always is thinking hard about many things. For me it was not so much a fun read though. **** If it doesn't feel quite as propulsive as Peripheral, I still finished it even more quickly. A few of Gibson's tics are more obvious here, and there aren't as many new ideas to chew over, but Agency just goes down so easy. I wouldn't put it quite on the plane of the great airport novels of the 20th century, but will say it's the closest the 21st century has come (for me).
From his beginnings in 1984’s Neuromancer, Gibson has offered the struggle for agency as an unacknowledged, quietly devastating war – fought by hackers, gig economy workers, off-gridders and their networks – against the algorithm, against the manipulation of our needs, our personal information and our appetites, by big data and gangster capital. If he was “prescient” back then, he’s right on the ball now, when it’s so much harder to believe in those loose human associations he imagined in the 1990s, whose combination of technical nous and cultural know-how enabled them to quickly distinguish the real from the sucker fantasy. But there's no boom. His bomb ticks and ticks, then hangs there, suspended between hope and catastrophe, because his stories these days are all about highly competent people being brought together to solve a problem — drawn in like rays inevitably converging, arriving just before everything explodes. His conflicts are intellectual, occasionally solved by the swift application of overwhelming violence, but more often seeing victory come as the natural result of more intelligent systems processes; through more effective usage of human capital and resources. And the good guys win simply because they are smarter and geekier and just so much cooler than the bad guys could ever hope to be. Regardless of Gibson’s shifting ratios of glee to cynicism, he can always be counted on to show us our contemporary milieu rendered magical by his unique insights, and a future rendered inhabitable by his wild yet disciplined imagination. Someone else might’ve made this fresh and clever, but from this source, it’s an often dull and pointless-seeming retread. Pertenece a las seriesTiene un comentario del texto enPremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
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HTML:AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ??ONE OF THE MOST VISIONARY, ORIGINAL, AND QUIETLY INFLUENTIAL WRITERS CURRENTLY WORKING?* returns with a sharply imagined follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The Peripheral. William Gibson has trained his eye on the future for decades, ever since coining the term ??cyberspace? and then popularizing it in his classic speculative novel Neuromancer in the early 1980s. Cory Doctorow raved that The Peripheral is ??spectacular, a piece of trenchant, far-future speculation that features all the eyeball kicks of Neuromancer.? Now Gibson is back with Agency??a science fiction thriller heavily influenced by our most current events. Verity Jane, gifted app whisperer, takes a job as the beta tester for a new product: a digital assistant, accessed through a pair of ordinary-looking glasses. ??Eunice,? the disarmingly human AI in the glasses, manifests a face, a fragmentary past, and a canny grasp of combat strategy. Realizing that her cryptic new employers don??t yet know how powerful and valuable Eunice is, Verity instinctively decides that it??s best they don??t. Meanwhile, a century ahead in London, in a different time line entirely, Wilf Netherton works amid plutocrats and plunderers, survivors of the slow and steady apocalypse known as the jackpot. His boss, the enigmatic Ainsley Lowbeer, can look into alternate pasts and nudge their ultimate directions. Verity and Eunice are her current project. Wilf can see what Verity and Eunice can??t: their own version of the jackpot, just around the corner, and the roles they both may play in it. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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