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Description: Menace of the Machine The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction. Paperback /softback. By Mike Ashley.
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Description: Technological advance is never straightforward. A man is murdered by an automaton built for chess. A computer system designed to arbitrate justice develops a taste for iron-fisted, fatal rulings. An AI governing what we now know as an internet wreaks havoc on society after removing all forms of censorship. Assembled with parts from the late 19th century to the 1960s, this new collection of classic stories warns of the possible threats, both comic and severe, of a world in which human and machine live side by side. A delightfully, and worryingly, prescient selection for today's world in which robotic coexistence is passing with each day from speculation to reality. Waterstones Menace of the Machine - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Description: Travel into the future in this abridged retelling of The Time Machine, part of the bestselling Classic Starts® series that has sold more than 8 million copies! After inventing a time machine, the Traveler leaves Victorian London and goes far, far into the future. At first, the world he discovers seems peaceful and prosperous. But as he looks farther below the surface, he realizes that things are not exactly as they first appeared. This abridged retelling is the perfect way to introduce young readers to the imaginative world of science fiction and time travel. Waterstones Classic Starts®: The Time Machine - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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ISBN: 9781454948391
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Description: Classic Science Fiction. Paperback /softback. By Editors of Canterbury Classics.
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Product ID: 9781684129959
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Description: Humans have used technology to expand our limited vision for millennia, from the invention of the stone mirror 8,000 years ago to the latest developments in facial recognition and augmented reality. We imagine that technologies will allow us to see more, to see differently and even to see everything. But each of these new ways of seeing carries its own blind spots. In this illuminating book, Jill Walker Rettberg examines the long history of machine vision. Providing an overview of the historical and contemporary uses of machine vision, she unpacks how technologies such as smart surveillance cameras and Tik Tok filters are changing the way we see the world and one another. By analysing fictional and real-world examples, including art, video games and science fiction, the book shows how machine vision can have very different cultural impacts, fostering both sympathy and community as well as anxiety and fear. Combining ethnographic and critical media studies approaches alongside personal reflections, Machine Vision is an engaging and eye-opening read. It is suitable for students and scholars of digital media studies, science and technology studies, visual studies, digital art and science fiction, as well as for general readers interested in the impact of new technologies on society.
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ISBN: 9781509545230
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Description: The classic science fiction-horror manga from the mind of Kazuo Umezz, creator of The Drifting Classroom, Orochi, and Cat-Eyed Boy!A chilling science fiction tale of humanity and artificial intelligence from classic horror manga creator Kazuo Umezz! When an industrial robot named Monroe begins to work at his father's factory, Satoru is fascinated. As he and his friend Marin spend more time with Monroe, they start to suspect there's much more to the machine than anyone else realizes. But neither children nor adults are prepared for Monroe's violent awakening into consciousness. Waterstones My Name Is Shingo: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 1 - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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ISBN: 9781974742721
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Description: Classic Science Fiction Stories. Hardback. By Adam Roberts.
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Product ID: 9781529069075
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Description: The Great Science Fiction The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Short Stories. Paperback /softback. By H. G. Wells.
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Product ID: 9780241277492
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Description: No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's' Exploring the primordial nightmares that lurk within humanity's dreams of progress and technology, H. G. Wells was a science fiction pioneer. This new omnibus edition brings together four of his hugely original and influential science-fiction novels - The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds - with his most unsettling and strange short stories. Containing monstrous experiments, terrifying journeys, alien occupiers and grotesque creatures, these visionary tales discomfit and disturb, and retain the power to trouble our sense of who we are. With an introduction by Matthew Beaumont. Waterstones The Great Science Fiction - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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ISBN: 9780241277492
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Description: Doctor Who: Dalek Menace! (Classic Novels Boxset). CD-Audio. By John Peel.
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Product ID: 9781471306587
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Description: Plan for Chaos Classic Science Fiction. Paperback /softback. By John Wyndham.
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Product ID: 9780141048772