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- Title
"BACK TO THE FUTURE": TECHNOLOGICAL SINGULARITY IN GIBSON'S SPRAWL TRILOGY.
- Authors
KREVEL, MOJCA
- Abstract
Ray Kurzweil's concept of singularity as presented in his 2005 "The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology" is based on complex calculations relying on the existing patterns of biological and technological evolution. His predictions about the course of future human development remarkably correspond to the worlds of the 1980s cyberpunk literature. The paper analyses William Gibson's "Sprawl Trilogy" in the light of Kurzweil's predictions for the future and explains its correspondence with the structural logic of postmodern reality.
- Subjects
TECHNOLOGICAL singularity; KURZWEIL, Ray, 1948-; SINGULARITY Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, The (Book); CYBERPUNK fiction; GIBSON, William, 1948-; NEUROMANCER (Book); COUNT Zero (Book); MONA Lisa Overdrive (Book)
- Publication
BAS - British & American Studies, 2014, Vol 20, p27
- ISSN
1224-3086
- Publication type
Article