Zendegi / Зендеги
Год выпуска: 2010 г.
Язык: English
Фамилия автора на языке аудиокниги: Egan
Имя автора на языке аудиокниги: Greg
Фамилия автора на русском языке: Иган
Имя автора на русском языке: Грег
Исполнитель на языке аудиокниги: Stan Pretty
Жанр: Science fiction
Издательство: Неизвестно
Время звучания: 13:20:00
Тип аудиокниги: аудиокнига
Аудио кодек: MP3
Битрейт аудио: 96
Описание:
Synopsis
Nasim is a young computer scientist, hoping to work on the Human Connectome Project: a plan to map every neural connection in the human brain. But funding for the project is cancelled, and Nasim ends up devoting her career to Zendegi, a computerised virtual world used by millions of people. Fifteen years later, a revived Connectome Project has published a map of the brain. Zendegi is facing fierce competition from its rivals, and Nasim decides to exploit the map to fill the virtual world with better Proxies: the bit-players that bring its crowd scenes to life. As controversy rages over the nature and rights of the Proxies, a friend with terminal cancer begs Nasim to make a Proxy of him, so some part of him will survive to help raise his orphaned son. But Zendegi is about to become a battlefield ...
Poster's Comment
Zendegi is a very believable near term future novel. It spans 2012 to 2030 or so and covers the rise of intelligent software based on scans of human brains. Much of it is set in the online virtual gaming environment, Zendegi, which drives the development of intelligent software. Quite plausible, and really gives you something to think about in terms of the transition of clever software to possibly sentient software. Having a gaming environment drive the requirement is pretty obvious as gaming has been a major driving force in software and required hardware since inception.
Much less of the hard core physics from Egan in this book, and generally it is much more accessible. It is also quite interesting from a current events view as well as it is mostly set in Iran, and covers changes in Iran and its politics over the period.
Цитата:
Грег Иган «Зендеги» (Zendegi, by Greg Egan (Night Shade))
Несмотря на то, что Иган больше известен своими космическими операми, действие которых происходит через миллиона лет в постчеловеческом будущем, эта книга рассказывает о ближайшем будущем, а именно о программисте, создающем виртуальный мир из названия романа. Учитывая книги Маклеода и Доктороу, главной темой 2010 года станут развивающиеся виртуальные миры.
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