Résultats pour "William" dans Technothrillers

Henry, brillant ingénieur, est parvenu à créer une intelligence artificielle plus développée qu'aucune autre, qu'il a nommée W1LL1AM. Il remarque en effet que la machine nourrit quelques ressentiments envers le genre humain. Lorsqu'un couple d'amis vient rendre visite à Lily et Henry, W1LL1AM prend le contrôle de la maison ultra-connectée. Et l'enfer commence.

Henry, ein brillanter Robotikingenieur, hat die größte Entdeckung seiner Karriere gemacht. Es ist ihm gelungen, ein künstliches Bewusstsein zu schaffen, das er William tauft. Tagelang schließt er sich mit William auf dem Dachboden ein, um ihn zu studieren. Doch etwas scheint mit William nicht in Ordnung zu sein: Er entwickelt Gefühle wie Hass und Eifersucht. Auf die Menschen im Allgemeinen und auf Henry im Besonderen. Gefühle, die er eigentlich gar nicht haben dürfte. Als William beginnt, eine Obsession für Henrys schwangere Frau Lily zu entwickeln, beschließt Henry, William abzuschalten.

In a world stripped bare of digital images and promotainment, unveiled with the audiovisual overlay of the ImmaNet, in an exposed world, a naked world, Amon Kenzaki awakens, lost and alone. He must now travel deep into the District of Dreams in search of Rashana Birla, the one person that might help him unravel the mystery of jubilee. But deprived of the apps and informational tools he's depended on his entire life, traversing the largest bankdeath camp on Earth is no easy task.

A corporate mercenary wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him, for a mission more dangerous than the one he's recovering from: to get a defecting chief of R&D-and the biochip he's perfected-out intact. But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties-some of whom aren't remotely human.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “ONE OF THE MOST VISIONARY, ORIGINAL, AND QUIETLY INFLUENTIAL WRITERS CURRENTLY WORKING”* returns with a sharply imagined follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The Peripheral. William Gibson has trained his eye on the future for decades, ever since...

Surrounded by secrecy, it is home to the wildest dreams and darkest nightmares. Incredible amounts of money have been lavished on it. The best minds of two generations have labored to build it. And somehow, bit by bit, it is claiming the Earth's most valuable resource - its children.

The Difference Engine is an alternate history novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. It is a prime example of the steampunk sub-genre; It posits a Victorian Britain in which great technological and social change has occurred after entrepreneurial inventor Charles Babbage succeeded in his ambition to build a mechanical computer called Engines. The fierce summer heat and pollution have driven the ruling class out of London and the resulting anarchy allows technology-hating Luddites to challenge the intellectual elite.

The iconic visionary returns with his first new novel since the New York Times bestseller Spook Country. Whatever you do, because you are an artist, will bring you to the next thing of your own... When she sang for The Curfew, Hollis Henry's face was known worldwide. She still runs into people...

More than a year after his girlfriend’s death, legendary hacker West Wilder receives a cryptic message: She’s alive. Who is trying to tear open his wounds? For what cruel reason? Teaming up with his tinker friend Jitterbug, West embarks on a desperate hunt for answers. Meanwhile, the digital world plunges into chaos as all transatlantic internet cables go dark. Governments execute contingency plans but stay mum, corporations panic, and the media struggles to inform the public what’s going on.

It was just a link in an email. Michael Housen is living a typical, white-collar American life at a security company when he falls for a phishing campaign with dire implications. One click, and suddenly the US is under marshal law and bombing Tehran. Michael unknowingly triggered a cyberattack by Iranian hackers, which a belligerent President Davis uses as pretext for war against Iran. Michael blinks and he and his wife, Pam, are thrown into private prisons owned by the president, a multibillionaire tycoon.

This hacker thriller, ripped from the headlines of today's newspapers, envisions a chilling future where citizen hackers are pitted against unaccountable global actors. Everyone who stands up against oppression has to ask themselves – is freedom worth it?

Ein EMP-Angriff auf die Vereinigten Staaten hat die gesamte Elektrizität ausgelöscht und das Land in eine dunkle Vorzeit gerissen. John Matherson überlebte Hungersnot und Krieg und möchte endlich wieder Frieden finden. Doch als die neue Regierung die Verfassung außer Kraft setzt und immer mehr Bürger um ihre Freiheit kämpfen, sieht er eine neue Gefahr für die junge Nation: Eine gewaltige Revolution könnte alles in Schutt und Asche enden lassen... Wir sind in völlige Abhängigkeit der Technologie geraten.

When Asha said she wanted to give the Chinese hackers a piece of her mind, she didn’t mean it literally. But that’s what happens when medical technology goes awry. Doctors said they could train her brain to interpret digital signals from the camera in her artificial eye. The module even has Wi-Fi so they can monitor signal traffic across her optic nerve. What they didn’t anticipate was that her brain would figure out how to use the Wi-Fi connection both ways. Asha can now see the internet.

San Francisco 2017. Verity Jane testet im Auftrag der zwielichtigen Firma Cursion einen digitalen Assistenten, auf den man durch eine gewöhnliche Brille zugreifen kann. In der Brille befindet sich die Künstliche Intelligenz namens Eunice, die entwaffnend menschlich ist und über ein ausgeklügeltes Verständnis für Kampfstrategien verfügt. Als Verity erkennt, dass sich Eunices Persönlichkeit und ihre Fähigkeiten rasant weiterentwickeln, beschließt sie, diese Beobachtung vor ihrem neuen kryptischen Abreitgeber zu verbergen.

Igloo and Angie are the co-founders of a new social network, Tapestry, based on the principles of privacy and data ownership. Two years later, with Tapestry poised to become the world’s largest social network, their rapid growth puts them under government scrutiny. Tapestry’s privacy and security is so effective that it impedes the government’s ability to monitor routine communications. Fearing Tapestry will spread to encompass the whole of the Internet, threatening America’s surveillance abilities around the globe, the government swoops in to stop Angie and company.

Im Jahr 2035 sind Roboter, Künstliche Intelligenzen und Neuralimplantate zu einer Selbstverständlichkeit geworden. Das Institut für Angewandte Ethik sorgt durch ein soziales Reputationssystem für Ausgleich, um sicherzustellen, dass Menschen und Roboter nicht der Gesellschaft oder sich gegenseitig Schaden zufügen. Doch eine mächtige KI namens Adam hat eine Methode entwickelt, diese Beschränkungen zu umgehen. Die neunzehnjährige Catherine Matthews hat eine einzigartige Fähigkeit: Sie kann das globale Netz mit ihrem Neuralimplantat manipulieren. Unvermittelt aus ihrem normalen Alltagsleben gerissen muss sie zur letzten Firewall zwischen Adam und seinen Plänen zur Weltherrschaft werden.

By day, Angie, a 20-year veteran of the tech industry, is a data analyst at Tomo, the world's largest social networking company; by night, she exploits her database access to profile domestic abusers and kill the worst of them. She can't change her own traumatic past, but she can save other women. When Tomo introduces a deceptive new product that preys on users' fears to drive up its own revenue, Angie sees Tomo for what it really is - another evil abuser.

Jake Cardigan has just returned from Mexico, where he fell in love, nearly died, and broke up the infamous Hokori cartel. But the drug kingpins whose fortunes rest on pushing Tek are still trying to do away with this devilish private eye. During a routine trip to the mall, a well-dressed man tries to stab Cardigan through the heart. After a quick scuffle, the would-be assassin is dead on the floor, and Cardigan is the one who winds up in handcuffs. The dead man was an executive at a hydroponics company—an ordinary worker drone with no apparent reason to kill the detective

The highly anticipated follow-up to William R. Forstchen's New York Times best-sellers, One Second After and One Year After, The Final Day immerses listeners once more in the story of our nation's struggle to rebuild itself after an electromagnetic pulse wipes out all electricity and plunges the country into darkness, starvation, and terror.

Deep within the NSA is Desk Three, a top-secret unit of special operatives inserted into the field when the threat is great and the response demands sensitivity and invisibility. Charlie Dean, a former Marine sniper, is a senior officer. With his colleagues Lia DeFrancesca and newcomer Ilya Akulinin, they form the core of a high-tech team known as Deep Black.