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The Two Faces Of Tomorrow Paperback – September 26, 2006
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- Print length576 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherDark Horse
- Publication dateSeptember 26, 2006
- Dimensions6.15 x 1.2 x 10.15 inches
- ISBN-101593075634
- ISBN-13978-1593075637
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- Publisher : Dark Horse (September 26, 2006)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 576 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1593075634
- ISBN-13 : 978-1593075637
- Item Weight : 2.55 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.15 x 1.2 x 10.15 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,637,641 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #3,979 in Dark Horse Comics & Graphic Novels
- #7,809 in Science Fiction Manga (Books)
- #350,428 in Science Fiction & Fantasy (Books)
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This novel explores the impact of an artificial intelligence and whether or not it can be "trusted" (for lack of a better word). In the prologue an automated computer system is told to do something "as quick as possible" and so it decides to blast out a ridge of a mountain with a mass driver. Needless to say this rather disturbed everybody involved, and so after some consideration they decided to outfit a space station under construction and then attack it to see what it does. The hope is that the AI would of course evolve peacefully.
Of course it didn't work out that way, and as the story unfolds the AI (Spartacus) learns more and more about its environment and how to respond to destruction of its circuits and such. And of course an AI that is shaped by conflict rather than questioning responds in a similar way, and the battle gets into stranger and stranger levels. The AI researchers have to decide if they can still keep it together, or if the time comes to evacuate everybody and use the last ditch option of a nuclear weapon...
An excellent work, mostly not particularly dated since it was first written. The action is well written and the story moves along briskly, and there's a sense that everybody is caught up in the battle without enough time to actually THINK about what they're doing.
I liked this book--not his best, but VERY good. Recommended for any fan of good science fiction and a fan of anybody interested in the possibilities of the evolution of AI.
The core idea of "Two Faces of Tomorrow" is one of the fundamental dilemmas facing humanity today and in the coming years. Namely, if a computer system is not more intelligent than we are, it cannot (in principle) achieve anything we can't. But, if it is more intelligent than we are, how can we trust its recommendations? Let alone its actions if we equip it to control machinery directly? In this book, a team of scientists, with military backup, are charged with running a full-scale experiment to find out whether an executive AI could resist all efforts to shut it down, and if so how. The outcome is very surprising, in both positive and negative ways.
As other reviewers have noted, Hogan does not put much effort into characterization, preferring to linger over engineering details. That's a stylistic choice, however, and a writer cannot do everything in the scope of a normal-length novel. This book should definitely be on your reading list if you're an SF devotee, and I think that all politicians and decision-makers should be aware of its core ideas. One day we are going to have to do something similar, although it may not be quite as dramatic as Hogan's story.
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スペースコロニーを舞台に、本能を植えつけられたコンピュータと
人類との壮大な実験が始まった・・・
傑作ハードSF漫画『未来の二つの顔』の英語版。
○ とにかく面白い。第一級のエンタテイメント。
○ スペースコロニー内部の精緻でリアルな描写も素晴らしい。
○ サイズがあまりにも大きくて重く、読みづらい。電話帳のよう。
予想を遥かに上回るスピードで進化し始めた人工知能スパルタカス
と、追い詰められていく登場人物たちとの息詰まる対決。
そして『実験』は『戦争』の様相を呈していき、やがて圧巻の
クライマックスへ・・・
J.P.ホーガン原作のハードSF小説を名匠・星野之宣によって漫画化
したこの作品は、傑作揃いの星野漫画の中でも屈指の面白さです。
物言わぬスパルタカスと人間達とのスリリングな攻防に釘付けになる
こと間違いなし。夢中になってページをめくりながら、楽しく英語に
親しんでいって下さい。
ちなみにこの漫画、日本語版と英語版とでは意訳の域を超えてセリフ
の内容が違う箇所が多く見られます。
また版型が大きいせいもあるのでしょうが、英語版の方が文字による
情報量が遥かに多くなっているので、日本語版を参考書がわりに使おう
としても役に立たない箇所が多いでしょうね。


