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Beta Life

Auteur(s): Martyn Amos - editor, Ra Page - editor
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  • Computers are changing. Soon the silicon chip will seem like a clunky antique amid the bounty of more exotic processes on offer. Robots are changing, too; material evolution and swarm intelligence are creating a new generation of devices that will diverge and disperse into a balanced ecosystem of humans and robjects (robotic objects).

    Somewhere in between, we humans will have to change also... in the way we interact with technology, the roles we adopt in an increasingly intelligent environment, and how we interface with each other. The driving motors behind many of these changes will be artificial life (A-Life) and unconventional computing. How exactly they will impact our world is still an open question.

    But in the spirit of collective intelligence, this anthology brings together 38 scientists and authors, working in pairs, to imagine what life (and A-Life) will look like in the year 2070. Every kind of technology is imagined: from lie-detection glasses to military swarmbots, brain-interfacing implants to synthetically grown skyscrapers, revolution-inciting computer games to synthetically engineered haute cuisine. All artificial life is here.

    Also featuring stories by Dinesh Allirajah, Lucy Caldwell, Claire Dean, Andy Hedgecock, Annie Kirby, Zoe Lambert, Sean O'Brien, K. J. Orr, Joanna Quinn, Sarah Schofield, Margaret Wilkinson, Robin Yassin-Kassab, Adam Roberts, Adam Marek, and Toby Litt. Plus afterwords by scientists J. Mark Bishop, Seth Bullock, James Dyke, Christian Jantzen, Francesco Mondada, James D. O'Shea, Andrew Philippides, Lenka Pitonakova, Steen Rasmussen, Thomas S. Ray, Micah Rosenkind, James Snowdon, Susan Stepney, Germán Terrazas, Andrew Vardy and Alan Winfield.

    What will life look like in the year 2070?

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  • Ep. 1: Introduction - How the Future Used to Look
    Aug 9 2018

    Introduction to the short story anthology, Beta Life: Stories from an A-Life Future, by the Editors.

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    10 min
  • Ep. 2: The Sayer of the Sooth
    Aug 9 2018

    In Martyn Bedford’s short story - lovingly grounded in the British Pessimism School of science fiction - Silent Talker and TruLens feature as computerized, psychological profiling systems for the collection and analysis of non-verbal behaviour.

    Afterword: No More Secrets by Dr James O'Shea.

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    47 min
  • Ep. 3: Swarm
    Aug 9 2018

    Will robots save or destroy the world? What stops a terrorist organisation or a ruthless dictatorship from weaponising technology or artificial intelligence? Robin Yassin-Kassab's story Swarm presents one such scenario.

    Afterword: Rise of the Machines by Lenka Pitonakova.

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    32 min

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