About the Book
A collection of stories.
Contents:
- Apartness
- Conquest by Default
- The Whirligig of Time
- Gemstone
- Just Peace (with William Rupp)
- Original Sin
- The Blabber
Threats and Promises: HOW DO YOU TELL THE DIFFERENCE?
Take for example the "promises" inherent in computers: super-human
intelligences to do our every bidding and make our every wish come true; mind links with those mechanical intelligences to give us the gift of
instant knowledge-on-demand of anything that has ever been recorded or
can be calculated. Computer realities that aren't just as good as
everyday life - but much, much better.
But once we have such
servants civilization will no longer be recognizable, or even
comprehensible to such as us. Once you mind link with that
super-intelligence you will no longer be human - you might not even be
you. And the world that "you" inhabit may be nothing more than a dream
in the mind of a computer.
What was once a threat will have become a promise, and what was once a promise will be some kind of... joke.
