Tech Anxiety

Artificial Intelligence and Ontological Awakening in Four Science Fiction Novels
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7864-6648-1
Verlag: McFarland

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 415 g

This project examines the representation of anxiety about technology that human subjects feel when encountering artificial intelligences in four science fiction novels: <em>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?</em>, <em>Neuromancer</em>, <em>2001: A Space Odyssey</em>, and <em>Cloud Atlas</em>. By exploring this anxiety, something profound can be revealed about what it means to be a person living in a technologically saturated society. <br><br>While many critical investigations of these novels focus on the dangerous and negative implications of artificial intelligence, this work uses Martin Heidegger's later writings on technology to argue that AIs might be more usefully read as catalysts for a reawakening of human thought.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sims, Christopher A.

Über Autor(innen)

<strong>Christopher A. Sims</strong> received a Ph.D. in literature from Ohio University, USA, where he is a post-doctoral fellow. He lives in Columbus, Ohio.