Tech anxiety : artificial intelligence and ontological awakening in four science fiction novels /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sims, Christopher A., 1979-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina ; London : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2013]
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Table of Contents:
  • Heideggerian technology studies
  • Hal as human savior in Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A space odyssey
  • The dangers of individualism and the human relationship to technology in Philip K. Dick's Do androids dream of electric sheep? Ais, hatred of the body, cyborgs, and salvation in William Gibson's Neuromancer
  • David Mitchell's Cloud atlas: cloned A.I.S as the leaders of an ontological insurrection.