The Steel Crocodile
D. G. Compton
This excellent novel is
about the coming world of omnipresent surveillance and centralized
computing. The science fiction content is minimal; really this is a
novel of ideas about the end of the Enlightenment which we are seeing
play out all the time.
Here we have a terrorist plot to
destroy the Bohn, an artificial intelligence computer with a mandate to
sabotage technological advances that humanity is not yet ready for. The
elite scientists of a technology think tank called Colindale have
decided to harness the power of the Bohn to guide technological
advancement away from being a "steel crocodile", science as an
unstoppable, devouring force, and into a logical, rational, greatest
good development.
Of course deciding the greater good is left to
these great men, and the greater good must be decided via intrusive
surveillance, ever more powerful computing and even the occasional
assassination.
The female lead is a religious catholic, who senses
the inherent potential for evil in the Colindale scheme. Her husband
Matthew is an acclaimed sociologist recently brought in to the elite
group, and her brother Paul is a dedicated terrorist against the
project. Humanity, technology, religion, social science and fanaticism
all collide in this unknown, unread humdinger.
about the coming world of omnipresent surveillance and centralized
computing. The science fiction content is minimal; really this is a
novel of ideas about the end of the Enlightenment which we are seeing
play out all the time.
Here we have a terrorist plot to
destroy the Bohn, an artificial intelligence computer with a mandate to
sabotage technological advances that humanity is not yet ready for. The
elite scientists of a technology think tank called Colindale have
decided to harness the power of the Bohn to guide technological
advancement away from being a "steel crocodile", science as an
unstoppable, devouring force, and into a logical, rational, greatest
good development.
Of course deciding the greater good is left to
these great men, and the greater good must be decided via intrusive
surveillance, ever more powerful computing and even the occasional
assassination.
The female lead is a religious catholic, who senses
the inherent potential for evil in the Colindale scheme. Her husband
Matthew is an acclaimed sociologist recently brought in to the elite
group, and her brother Paul is a dedicated terrorist against the
project. Humanity, technology, religion, social science and fanaticism
all collide in this unknown, unread humdinger.
კატეგორია:
წელი:
1970
ენა:
english
ფაილი:
PDF, 8.89 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1970
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