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Beta-Life : Short Stories from an a-Life Future by Ra Page (2014, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherComma Press

ISBN-101905583656

ISBN-139781905583652

eBay Product ID (ePID)201597036

Product Key Features

Book TitleBeta-Life : Short Stories from an Alife Future

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicScience Fiction / Collections & Anthologies, Science Fiction / General

Publication Year2014

GenreFiction

AuthorRa Page

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight15.2 Oz

Item Length7.5 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal823.0876208092

SynopsisComputers are changing. Soon, the days of silicon-based logic-gate computing will seem like a quaint and distant memory from a charmingly clunky past. Likewise, robots--once designed by mere mortals--will be soon be devised solely by the ultimate designing agency, evolution (with the help of computer modeling of natural selection). Meanwhile, A-Life (artificial life) and mathematical biomimicry--algorithm-based virtual models that map the collective intelligence of nature onto manmade systems--will become as big as genetics is right now. What this future will look like, exactly, is beyond even the scientists. But this book attempts to start the process of imagining it, by pairing researchers at the cutting edge of A-Life and Unconventional Computing with some of the most exciting writers working in English., The way we interact with technology, the roles we adopt in an increasingly 'intelligent' environment, and how we interface with each other are changing. The driving motors behind many of these changes will be artificial life (A-Life) and unconventional computing. How exactly they will impact on our world is still an open question. But in the spirit of collective intelligence, this anthology brings together 38 scientists and authors, working in pairs, to imagine what life (and A-Life) will look like in the year 2070.

LC Classification NumberPR1309.S3