Verity Jane, una "app-whisperer" di talento, viene assunta come beta tester per un nuovo prodotto di nome Eunice: un'assistente digitale attivabile per mezzo di occhiali dall'aspetto normalissimo. Eunice, oltre a essere un'intelligenza artificiale incredibilmente umana, ben presto rivela di posseder
Agency
โ Scribed by William Gibson
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group;Berkley
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 204 KB
- Edition
- First Edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0451490983
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โฆ Synopsis
"ONE OF THE MOST VISIONARY, ORIGINAL, AND QUIETLY INFLUENTIAL WRITERS CURRENTLY WORKING"* returns with a sharply imagined sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel The Peripheral.
William Gibson has trained his gifted eye on the future for decades, ever since coining the term "cyberspace" and then popularizing it in his classic speculative novel Neuromancer in the early 1980s. Cory Doctorow raved that The Peripheral is "spectacular, a piece of trenchant, far-future speculation that features all the eyeball kicks of Neuromancer." Now Gibson is back with Agencyโa science fiction thriller heavily influenced by our most current events.
Verity Jane, gifted app whisperer, takes a job as the beta tester for a new product: a digital assistant, accessed through a pair of ordinary-looking glasses. "Eunice," the disarmingly human AI in the glasses, manifests a face, a fragmentary past, and a canny grasp of combat...
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