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Threats... and Other Promises
| Author: | Vernor Vinge |
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Baen, 1988 |
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| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
Threats and Promises: HOW DO YOU TELL THE DIFFERENCE?
Take for example the "promises" inherent in computers: super-human intelligences to do our every bidding and make our every wish come true; mind links with those mechanical intelligences to give us the gift of instant knowledge-on-demand of anything that has ever been recorded or can be calculated. Computer realities that aren't just as good as everyday life--but much, much better.
But once we have such servants civilization will no longer be recognizable, or even comprehensible to such as us. Once you mind link with that super-intelligence you will no longer be human--you might not even be you. And the world that "you" inhabit may be nothing more than a dream in the mind of a computer.
What was once a threat will have become a promise, and what was once a promise will be some kind of... joke.
Table of Contents:
- Apartness - (1965) - novelette
- Conquest by Default - (1968) - novelette
- The Whirligig of Time - (1974) - shortstory
- Gemstone - (1983) - novelette
- Just Peace - (1971) - novelette by Vernor Vinge and William Rupp
- Original Sin - (1972) - novelette
- The Blabber - (1988) - novella
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