Buzzati, Dino
The Singularity
- ISBN 13:
- 9781681378008
- author:
- Buzzati, Dino
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- New York Review of Books
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2024
- Pages:
- 160
- Dimensions:
- 20.1 x 12.7 x 1 centimetres (0.1
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 7 working days
Description
Dino Buzzati's The Singularity is a prophetic allegory about artificial intelligence. In 1960, this pioneering work of Italian science fiction was published as a novella, exploring themes of love and longing while offering a startlingly prescient parable of artificial intelligence. A modest university professor, Ermanno Ismani, becomes involved in a remote and enigmatic project at the Experimental Camp of Military Zone 36. Accompanied by his wife Elisa, he embarks on a mysterious two-year mission amidst forests, cliffs, and high mountains. As they settle into their new surroundings, they begin to unravel the true nature of their assignment. At the heart of the research complex lies a strange, shining wall, surrounded by wires, radio towers, and mobile sensors. This enigmatic structure raises questions about the shape of consciousness itself - whose? A brisk new translation by Anne Milano Appel brings Buzzati's work to readers in English for the first time.
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