Agency by William Gibson splits the seams between AI and humans

I coque iphone 6 plus coque pour iphone 5 licorne tendance read every William Gibson book. I no longer remember when or where. But Gibson work has been a companion since the midSometimes his work has blazed ahead of my timeline. Sometimes it ridden alongside. coque iphone Sometimes he taken me backward, coque iphone xs max disney made me think about the spaces I already lived.

Agency, the second book in a potential trilogy that started with 2015 The Peripheral, is a little of all of those.

First of all: Before you go any further, read The Peripheral first. Agency leans coque iphone 6s monster heavily on the same characters, dovetailing and reinventing the story. The Peripheral was about two coque iphone 6s forum futures a near one and a distant one that could communicate over a data based form of time travel, coque iphone 6 plus cuir rouge opening up strange coque iphone chi possibilities for telepresence via synthetic avatars that act, in a sense, as a time machine. It was also about the end of the world (the coque iphone 6 alu brossé alternate timelines, kleptocracies controlling humanity. Read it.

Agency is a more confusing concept. The Peripheral felt alien when coque iphone 6s canard I first read coque iphone 6 muse it; Agency feels almost sunny, familiar, chaotic. It takes place but not now. bijoux personnalise It involves Bay Area tech startups and AR headsets, spinning a vibe that doesn feel far off from the life I actually live right now covering emergent tech. coque iphone 7 attack on titan There a mysterious AI program: an assistant, a person, named Eunice. Someone. coque huawei coque samsung I don want to give much more away. I prefer you let the book take you on this journey. Eunice meets and bonds with a character named Verity Jane, a professional whisperer, someone with multitudinous strange connections. This is a Gibson book, after all.

The present day (or slightly coque iphone rr in the past) world of Verity Jane is a world where Hillary Clinton became coque iphone 5 3d disney president instead of Trump. The world building of The Peripheral and Agency call this sort of alternate timeline a Stub, and it exists alongside our own (if indeed we living in the timeline at all). collier argent That Stub world still has its own problems. coque iphone But in addition to the fantasy of exploring another timeline, Agency is really about the impossible mixing of multiple timelines and multiple states of telepresence.

Parts coque iphone 5s matelassé from The Peripheral come to play: familiar characters and continued stories. There a mission, and there a lot of spycraft and strange covert operations in various places at once.

What I felt, reading Agency, was that the AI presence was impossibly advanced and maybe too all knowing. But I also started to enjoy an elaborate cat and mouse game that spans time and space, involving tasks performed by people who don know why they doing them. coque iphone The pieces to a puzzle I couldn quite comprehend, maybe.

My favorite idea in the whole book, though, is more of a miasma: as characters interact and communicate in coque iphone se zve iphone 5 5s all sorts of ways, via wearables, drones, AR/VR, texts, voice identity starts to get muddy and strange. Eunice isn the only half present entity with impossible powers. pokemon peluche People seem to fade coque iphone x serpent in and out of coque iphone 5 paris saint germain time and space, in various states of presence.

Maybe that life now, a life already lived knee deep in a simultaneous online set of realities. coque iphone Instead of a cyberspace I log in and out of decades ago, everything is all at once now. I think about levels of virtual reality when I put an earbud in my ear, or get haptics from a watch notification, or play a VR game while simultaneously listening to my family in the same room. Senses half in, half out. Communicating on several apps and planes of existence (Slack, texts, Twitter, Facebook, Fitbit) at once.

Agency is coque iphone 7 bleach a funny word. In the world of immersive art and coque iphone grumpy cat theater, it refers to how much control you feel you have, versus having things decided for you. That how I felt, following Gibson characters trying to freely act in a world that dictated and often controlled by many unknown factors. coque samsung That how I feel, at times, most days.

I got the sense, talking to William Gibson last October, that Agency was not necessarily intended as part of a premeditated trilogy it just ended up that way. coque iphone Similarly, Agency isn coque iphone effet cassé so much about the future as it is a way of wrestling with the present. coque huawei And it also a book about friendship. Is coque iphone 5 fille sport it optimism I sense as I reading a book about how future timelines are playing with people like ants in an ant farm

I felt more emotionally connected to Agency than other Gibson books. coque iphone 8 plus classe It felt oddly more human and at times madcap, despite the sci fi dystopias lurking in every corner. coque samsung Is that me getting used to the coque d iphone 5 3d animeaux strangeness of a world that usurped sci fi, or coque iphone 5s madame is it Gibson playing a new game with my head again I need to reread Agency to be certain.