Ebook , by Marshall Brain
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Ebook , by Marshall Brain
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, by Marshall Brain
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Product details
File Size: 233 KB
Print Length: 79 pages
Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
Publisher: BYG Publishing, Inc.; 1 edition (March 5, 2012)
Publication Date: March 5, 2012
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B007HQH67U
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**spoiler alert** Who should benefit from the coming power of AI? The author paints two pictures: the first a nightmare scenario where the vast majority of citizens are, as soon as their inevitable obsolescence by the machines, warehoused and forgotten, leaving the elite few ownership class to reap the rewards of the automation while the rest wallow in tedium and obscurity, the second a seemingly utopian alternative where the machines augment people's abilities instead of replace them, where the collective benefits of the machines are shared. What I found most interesting was that in both scenarios the author presented a seemingly inevitability of loss of personal liberties. While in scenario 2 the citizens lived in luxury, in the process they also gave up a not small part of their humanity or even free will (in the process taking a deep turn into science fiction territory), leaving a reader to question which would be more insidious: living in a box with your actions monitored and controlled externally, or living with augmentations but at a price of your humanity. I think it would be easy to dismiss this parable as anti-capitalist, but I speculate that the author is more interested in directions of innovation instead of governance or economy - demonstrating the outcomes when the machines are designed to either usurp or augment.
I fell that the technical plausibility and technical detail of this work was spot-on, and that the dystopia presented in the first half of the book was both believable and enlightening. I think the writing and the storytelling were better in the opening chapters and degraded slightly over the course of the book. I finished the first chapter thinking that I could probably write the software for a research-grade prototype of a system like "Manna" and I finished the second chapter well-aware of the very plausible dangers of such a system.I was less impressed with the second half of the book and feel that, from a storytelling perspective, this book's Utopia should have had a clearer dark side. I think the author left hooks in the book where such a thing could have been developed further, even while leaving a twisted utopia that was better than the world presented in the first half of the book. It could even have been written in such a way as to make the main character unaware of the negative aspects of his newfound Paradise while leaving them clear for the reader (perhaps the book was attempting to do exactly this and I missed it).I encourage the author of this work to write another book with basically the same premise, but more refined writing and more nuanced storytelling. I also encourage the reading of this book at technology-oriented book clubs, as it seems likely to produce a heated debate over ideas.
This book sure is something else.I've been digging into the whole 'post-scarcity economy' thing for years after having first been introduced to the concept by Jacques Fresco of The Venus Project [...], James P. Hogan's "Voyage from Yesteryear" and The Culture Series from Ian Banks. I've seen the dystopian version from The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson and Counting Heads by David Marusek.But this book Manna, drives the science fiction into the harsh limelight of the soon-to-be future. It doesn't even require real AI or advanced nanotechnology to achieve it. It all starts with a desktop computer in a back office and radio headset like they wear at the fast food restaurants.After reading this book, you'll never look at those employees wearing those headsets the same way again.After reading this book, you'll be wanting to find out where you can sign up for the post-scarcity civilization as how it should be.The book is simple, told in a narrative style by the protagonist much in the same style as Jules Verne, in my view. But that's the point: The plot is only supposed to be the vehicle to show you what is coming and how we can adapt to it as a new phase of civilization dawns on humanity.Certain details get overlooked in the process, such as how some of the things the expert software system MANNA tells/does to the employees that would get that employer in hot water with the lawyers (especially in California). But then again those details don't really matter, as the reader becomes convinced that the paradigm shift of robots taking away 90% of human jobs will happen no matter what kind of obstacles are placed in its way.For 99 cents and only 79 pages of reading time, this book is worth its weight in gold.
A very engaging little work somewhere between a short story and a novella. I found the dystopian side a bit more plausible, given what has been revealed to us about human nature over the last 5,000 years or so and that part of the story is develped in a nice cinematic trajectory from the initial spare and foreboding sentence gathering momentum from its own internal logic. Brain extends several tendencies already extant and builds a fairly coherent cautionary tale of where automation, corporate control and the surveillance state could easily lead us.The utopian side is fun but slightly unconvincing- kind of like a super optimistic techno/futuristic TED talk on steroids- from complete common ownership of ALL resources and ubiquitous robotic means of production through direct brain/cyber interface all the way to a Matrix-like (though cheerfully non-judgemental) dissociation of humans from their pesky bodies...except, of course, for the all important brain, floating in a rack of tanks somewhere...a little creepy. Definitely someone else's utopia.So, the slightly creepy (to me) technological singularity parts aside, all in all, a quick and entertaining ride.
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