{"product_id":"tech-anxiety-christopher-a-sims-9780786466481","title":"Tech Anxiety: Artificial Intelligence and Ontological Awakening in Four Science Fiction Novels","description":"\u003cp\u003e This project examines the representation of anxiety about technology that humans feel when encountering artificial intelligences in four science fiction novels: \u003ci\u003eDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Neuromancer, 2001: A Space Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCloud Atlas\u003c\/i\u003e. By exploring this anxiety, something profound can be revealed about what it means to be a person living in a technologically saturated society. While many critical investigations of these novels focus on the dangerous and negative implications of artificial intelligence, this work uses Martin Heidegger's later writings on technology to argue that AIs might be more usefully read as catalysts for a reawakening of human thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher A. Sims\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0786466480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780786466481\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/11\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Christopher A. Sims","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086857711871,"sku":"9780786466481","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_926adc67-700f-4acf-8404-a14c65d55ccd.jpg?v=1769096984","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tech-anxiety-christopher-a-sims-9780786466481","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}