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The Price Of Free Will The Singularity Cometh [Paperback]

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  • Category: Books (Fiction)
  • Author:  Christopher Dorda
  • Author:  Christopher Dorda
  • ISBN-10:  1432755706
  • ISBN-10:  1432755706
  • ISBN-13:  9781432755706
  • ISBN-13:  9781432755706
  • Publisher:  Outskirts Press
  • Publisher:  Outskirts Press
  • Pages:  440
  • Pages:  440
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-Jun-2010
  • Pub Date:  01-Jun-2010
  • SKU:  1432755706-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  1432755706-11-MPOD
  • Item ID: 102299428
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The Price Of Free Will, by Christopher Dorda

The Concept

If you had the capacity to change the world for what you thought was the better , would you? Even if it redefines what it means to be human? What if you knew it would kill you? Alistair Maxwell, genius, hacker, some might even call him a precognitive sociopath, is thrust into this very dilemma by an assassination attempt on his life.

The Story

Through hard work and study, Alistair Maxwell gains access to every bit of information available on the planet and starts making connections. What he discovers sends him into a schizophrenic paranoid depression. Corruption, war, ignorance, starvation, poverty, exploitation, genocide... A single ever-repetitive thought permeates his existence: Someone has to do something about this!

In 2005, in a quantum reality very close to our own, Alistair Maxwell is about to exercise his free will. Employing his unique precognitive abilities, knowing that his own death is assured whether he fails or succeeds, he attempts to end the suffering of the world because he believes that he can, and because he believes it's the right thing to do.

This is the story of an event that hasn't occurred in our reality, but deep down inside, we all know, it's only a matter of time before it does.

The Singularity Cometh.

The Technological Singularity

Technological Singularity refers to the hypothesis that technological progress will become extremely fast, and so make the future unpredictable.

Although technological progress has been accelerating, it has been limited by the basic intelligence of the human brain, which has not changed significantly for millennia.

However with the increasing power of computers and other technologies, it might soon be possible to build a machine that is fundamentally more intelligent than man.

If such a machine were built, then the machine itself couldl$
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