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12 bytes : how we got here, where we might go next / Jeanette Winterson.

Winterson, Jeanette, 1959- (author.).

Summary:

Twelve essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love . Winterson draws deeper from her years of considering artificial intelligence in all its bewildering manifestations. She looks to history, religion, myth, literature, the politics of race and gender, and computer science, to help us understand the radical changes to the way we live and love that are happening now. When we create non-biological life-forms, will we do so in our image? Or will we accept the once-in-a-species opportunity to remake ourselves in their image? What do love, caring, sex, and attachment look like when humans form connections with non-human helpers, teachers, sex-workers, and companions? And what will happen to our deep-rooted assumptions about gender? Will the physical body that is our home soon be enhanced by biological and neural implants, keeping us fitter, younger, and connected? Is it time to join Elon Musk and leave Planet Earth?

Record details

ISBN: 9780802159250
Physical Description: viii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Grove Press, 2021
Copyright: ©2021.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Love(lace) actually -- A loom with a view -- From sci-fi to wi-fi to my-wi -- Gnostic know-how -- He ain't heavy, he's my Buddha -- Coal-fired vampire -- Hot for a bot -- My bear can talk -- Fuck the binary -- The future isn't female -- Jurassic car park -- I love, therefore I am.