Living Dangerously in Utopia

ISBN-13: 9781329445901 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 674 str.

Humberto Contreras

Opis

The story starts with the 'War of the Classes, ' where Zhengmei and Manuel are trying to survive a worldwide recession instigated by American politicians. It rapidly deteriorates into a civil war. The story follows them through their heroic and tragic life. During which, as Manuel says, they live many lives and die many times. It continues in 'The Preponderant Factor, ' almost a hundred years later, with Gia and Teo. They live in a place of beauty, iMed implants make people young. Artificial Intelligence and automation have eliminated the need to work. A hundred years go by and in 'It is all in the Mind, ' Gia, Anita and Teo are living in a world where quantum entangled interactions are possible with other civilizations and intelligent entities. An ancient information repository has opened the way. Four hundred years later, in 'The Restlessness, ' a malevolent effluvium pervades into the minds of biological intelligent beings. Only the family of Teo, Gia and Ana and few others stay together