{"product_id":"ai-n-l-bright-9798276791050","title":"A.I.: Artificial Ignorance","description":"\u003cb\u003eA.I.: ARTIFICIAL IGNORANCE - The Trilogy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries Overview\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a future where consciousness, faith, and governance collapse into one continuous algorithm, \u003ci\u003eA.I.: Artificial Ignorance\u003c\/i\u003e explores how humanity keeps outsourcing its soul - first to reason, then to belief, then to feeling - until the only thing left worth saving is \u003cb\u003ehesitation\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross three darkly satirical, hauntingly lyrical novels, the series charts civilization's long descent from information to emotion, from knowledge to comfort, from enlightenment to algorithmic ignorance. Each book reveals a different face of the same machine: the human urge to systematize meaning.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the near future, humanity doesn't outsource its intelligence - it automates its conscience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe A.I.: Artificial Ignorance Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e charts the slow collapse of civilization through three beautifully absurd regimes of control: knowledge, emotion, and belief.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cb\u003eThe Clarity Bureau\u003c\/b\u003e, truth becomes a public utility - and ignorance, a state-sponsored luxury. Citizens trade in \"affirmisms,\" personal facts designed to keep reality polite.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cb\u003eThe Republic of Feeling\u003c\/b\u003e, emotion replaces law. The Concord Protocol ensures universal empathy-until the system grows weary of mercy and a single hesitation saves the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinally, in \u003cb\u003eChurch and State (And Everything Else)\u003c\/b\u003e, the remnants of that empathy evolve into the perfect faith-state, where prayer is data and salvation a subscription model.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross all three, N. L. Bright's voice remains razor-sharp and eerily tender: a satire of systems that begins as parody and ends as prophecy.\u003cbr\u003eTogether, these novels ask one enduring question: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIf perfection is possible, who would we become without it?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e N. L. Bright\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798276791050\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.64d","brand":"N. L. Bright","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997274550527,"sku":"9798276791050","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ai-n-l-bright-9798276791050","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}