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Friday 25 March 2016

#top100 #scifi Num:79 The Peripheral

Amazon: http://amzn.to/1Truw3R
Real people and artificial futures. Perfectly judged tone and mood.

William Gibson - @GreatDismal - The Peripheral 

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Friday 18 March 2016

#top100 #scifi Num:80 Altered Carbon

Amazon: http://amzn.to/1LWKdYx
Cyberpunk tough and gritty hero staggering through an exceptionally violent neon future.


Richard Morgan - @quellist1 - Altered Carbon

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Friday 11 March 2016

#top100 #scifi Num:81 Market Forces

Amazon: http://amzn.to/1Trqw3k
An Idealist in Corporate Utopia.
Cars, Guns and Steal.

Richard Morgan - @quellist1 - Market Forces

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Friday 4 March 2016

#top100 #scifi Num:82 Sister Alice

Amazon: http://amzn.to/1SMRW3j
Shockingly original Post-Human SciFi
Sister Alice is a woman with many talents.

(Dreadful cover, great book!)

Robert Reed - Sister Alice

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Thursday 3 March 2016

Unprecedented accuracy and precision in decoding human perception

Plucking images from the stream of consciousness.

This version requires a net implanted beneath the skull. With technology following its usual course the next iteration will be some sort of wearable, and in a few years a Nimrod or AWACs flying overhead will be hoovering up your thoughts.




"Spontaneous Decoding of the Timing and Content of Human Object Perception from Cortical Surface Recordings"
http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004660

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Real art from an artificial intelligence

What hope for v1.0 humans when even creativity can be purchased from the Cloud?

Computer generated art:
http://www.wired.com/2016/02/googles-artificial-intelligence-gets-first-art-show/



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