Steel Beach, by John Varley Synopsis: A tour of a transhumanist future on a lunar colony, where Humanity struggles against the ennui of irrelevance, and a sovereign Friendly AI struggles against value drift. Book Review: It is really impressive how ahead-of-its-time this novel was. It was published in 1992, and for the most part I felt like it could have been published last month (with a few notable exceptions--the “we update our news sites every hour” must’ve seemed like a lot back then, nowadays we update in real time…)
SF/F Review – Steel Beach
SF/F Review – Steel Beach
SF/F Review – Steel Beach
Steel Beach, by John Varley Synopsis: A tour of a transhumanist future on a lunar colony, where Humanity struggles against the ennui of irrelevance, and a sovereign Friendly AI struggles against value drift. Book Review: It is really impressive how ahead-of-its-time this novel was. It was published in 1992, and for the most part I felt like it could have been published last month (with a few notable exceptions--the “we update our news sites every hour” must’ve seemed like a lot back then, nowadays we update in real time…)