And we’re back with more example of thinking machines and artificial intelligences! Daleks: The evil-machine menace from Doctor Who. Granted, they are not technically robots, more like cyborgs that have been purged of all feeling and emotion. But given their cold, unfeeling murderous intent, I feel like they still make the cut. Originally from the […]
Count Zero
by storiesbywilliams on April 12, 2012 in Books, Reviews and tagged AI, angie mitchell, beauvoir, Bigend trilogy, biosoft, black ice, bobby newmark, boston-atlanta metropolitan axis, Bridge Trilogy, conner, count zero, cyberpunk, cyberspace, cyberspace deck, cyberspace jockeys, deck, fission authority, freeside, hosaka, ice, icebreaker, josef virek, maas, microsoft, Neuromancer, port, Sci-Fi, science fiction, slot, sprawl trilogy, tessier-ashpool, the BAMA, the sprawl, trodes, turing laws, turing police, turner, turning, voodoo deities, William Gibson, wintermute
“On receiving an interrupt, decrement the counter to zero.” -Programming The Z80 by Rodnay Zaks (1982). The other night, I finally finished book II in the Sprawl series by William Gibson. Kindle for iPad, not paperback, which in itself was kind of a bummer. Somehow, I still haven’t made the transition for hard copies to […]
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