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Daysleeper is a philosophical tale set in the future of, approximately, Earth. Its protagonist is a character whose origins and true motives remain ambiguous. Its creator is G.E. Wilker. |
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As the power of tecnology grew, so did the Internet. On the one side, it became the tool of choice for business. On the other, it became the refuge of an increasing number of fringe groups. One of these groups began, with the unofficial backing of many major research scientists who liberated academic and corporate resources to aid it, an attempt to create a true "artificial intellegence": an program with the ability to think abstractly, to generate new ideas from current ones, to reprogram itself as necessary - on the level of a human mind. Unfortunately, they chose to keep their mainframe in the project leader's house, on the project leader's computer, in the project leader's study, directly above the project leader's lifemate's mutiplanar mysticism ritual area. Never mix psychic forces and computer software. The result might be sentient. It might be the first demonstration of how to mix computers and magic. It might start a revolution. The revolution was suprisingly slow, in fact. It took years, while the new ideas raced around the fringe groups and the corporations buried their head in the sand, believing that their almost total dominance of the political systems of the world would enable them to withstand the seemingly minor assault. They were wrong. Watching the Lights go Down begins as the world begins the inevitable slide. Like anything powerful and complex, the new studies of computhaumatics attracted those who would use it incorrectly and those who would use it for the wrong ends. It also attracted the attention of those who had been around long enough to recognize its dangers, and to recognize the spasms rocking human society and the rips of inevitable error as birthing pains of something that would sweep old patterns in its wake. Daysleeper is the tale of one of those, one who knows the only reasoned course is to play the midwife, but who has deeper secrets and old promises to keep ... | |
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