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Ransom Stevens “I can’t believe I ate a seal. And really enjoyed it.” Moments after a venture capitalist experiences what it’s like to be a polar bear — really be a polar bear, she knows she’s found something revolutionary. Farley Rutherford and his team — neurologist “Chopper” and über-geek engineer Ringo have created sensory saturation, a virtual reality system that drops users into the psyches of endangered animals as they fight for survival, and they believe the experience could turn the indifferent masses into avid environmentalists. The hardware is ready to go, but to get the system off the ground the money-men want more bang for their buck, and that includes bigger, more dangerous animals, and the ability to turn the machines into profitable games. But to Farely and his team, this is anything but a game. To some, in fact, this is a cause they’d kill for… The Sensory Deception is a mind-blowing, globe-trotting ride that will take readers from cut-throat Silicon Valley boardrooms to the pirate ships off the Somali coast to the devastated rain forests of the Amazon all to ask the question: What is a human life worth compared to that of an entire planet? Blurbs, images and information collected from Amazon.com August 2013 https://www.amazon.com/Sensory-Deception-Ransom- Stephens/dp/1611099196
Ernest Cline The bestselling cult classic—soon to be a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg. In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines— puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them. But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win—and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape. Ted Chiang What's the best way to create artificial intelligence? In 1950, Alan Turing wrote, 'Many people think that a very abstract activity, like the playing of chess, would be best. It can also be maintained that it is best to provide the machine with the best sense organs that money can buy, and then teach it to understand and speak English. This process could follow the normal teaching of a child.' The first approach has been tried many times in both science fiction and reality. In this novella, Chiang offers a detailed imagining of how the second approach might work within the contemporary landscape of startup companies, massively-multiplayer <strong>online</strong> gaming, and open-source software. It's a story of two people and the artificial intelligences they helped create, following them for more than a decade as they deal with the upgrades and obsolescence that are inevitable in the world of software. At the same time, it's an examination of the difference between processing power and intelligence, and of what it means to have a real relationship with an artificial entity. June 2012 https://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One- Ernest-Cline/dp/0307887448/ July 2010 https://www.amazon.com/Lifecycle-Software-Objects- Ted-Chiang/dp/1596063173/
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