David Sikter
1) Autogenesis
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The year is 2048, and Anders Helmemyr has just started studying computer science in Uppsala, Sweden. Amidst political activism, a complicated love life, and the thrills of student nightlife, he meets Niklas, a computer genius who began his Ph.D. in artificial intelligence at the age of 18.
Niklas has a secret: he's conducting illegal research on a home-built neurosimulator, trying to create an artificial consciousness – a program that thinks and...
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If you could live forever, would you want to? This is the story of Anita and Kimmo and their struggle against cancer; of Aender and Kiyoshi and the first interstellar war, and of An and Ki and Earth's last days. Intertwined, these three stories take the reader on a journey from Stockholm in the year 2016 to the end of time; a story about the breathtaking possibilities offered by the development of artificial intelligence and mind upload.
"No one is...
3) An and Ki
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Having lived for six billion years in a world of infinite potential, a world where technology has made it possible to practically live forever, An, one of the Ancients, has grown utterly weary of his existence. With a heavy heart, he leaves Ki, his beloved, and embarks on one final journey to Earth, the cradle of civilization and the planet where he was once born. There, he intends to conclude his life, as Earth now only has days before it will be...
4) Introdus
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The year is 2074. For a decade, the technology for mind upload has existed. Anyone who wants to – and has the means to do so – can now stave off death by having their brain scanned and uploaded to the grid; a virtual, digital world. Society is divided over the new technology, but Anders Helmemyr, one of the proponents of the transhumanist movement, is hopeful. He dreams of a day when this technology will be available to everyone.
When a devastating...