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The content of Three Journeys Into The Labyrinth was fed into AI-based software, which searched the three stories for conceptually similar passages of text. This provided the basis for Fahrenbrink. One of the locations for the three stories, a deserted hotel in Germany, was used as a metaphor for the computer on which the software ran. The author is confined to the hotel and interrogated by key characters from the stories; again, a metaphor, but this time in respect of the computer instructions deconstructing the text. Fahrenbrink takes further the argument that online communication alters consciousness and suggests that it also challenges basic philosophical concepts, such as form and difference. The book predicts that, ultimately, only computers will be privy to any truth residing in the big data accumulating in networks.
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"Newspapers and television aren't interactive. They don't have any body language. With a multimedia system the information takes on a life of its ownj it has energy. The viewer can interact with it, and having done so, the machine knows what pleases or displeases them. The machine will have an element of control that even the television companies may not be aware of. Even if they were, there wouldn't be anything they could do about it. Imagine the TV output of the Gulf War being subject to that sort of scrutiny ."
Ed smiled. "We had it tied up Peter, we had those reporters well under control."
"Really?" Peter replied.
"Look" snapped Ed, "This new computerised television doesn't cause me any problems. You're the one who's frightened of it. You're scared of your own product. Don't think I'm going to be put off running it. I know there were bits missing from the copy you sent me. I know you took out the similar function from the Artificial Intelligence program, hoping that I wouldn't be able to run it on your book. Let's see what happens when we run it, shall we?"
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. The content of Three Journeys Into The Labyrinth was fed into AI-based software, which searched the three stories for conceptually similar passages of text. This provided the basis for Fahrenbrink. One of the locations for the three stories, a deserted hotel in Germany, was used as a metaphor for the computer on which the software ran. The author is confined to the hotel and interrogated by key characters from the stories; again, a metaphor, but this time in respect of the computer instructions deconstructing the text. Fahrenbrink takes further the argument that online communication alters consciousness and suggests that it also challenges basic philosophical concepts, such as form and difference. The book predicts that, ultimately, only computers will be privy to any truth residing in the big data accumulating in networks. Seller Inventory # 88f12d61-573f-4db2-adfe-2068670c02a5
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Fahrenbrink
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Digithurst, Royston, 1991., 1991
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