默里·沙纳汉，伦敦帝国理工学院认知机器人学系教授，负责指导动力学组的研究。毕业于帝国理工学院、剑桥大学，2006起担任帝国理工学院教授至今。 默里·沙纳汉是奥斯卡获奖影片《机械姬》的科学顾问，作品横跨人工智能、机器人学、逻辑学、动力系统、计算神经科学和哲学思想等多领域，经常在媒体上就人工智能和机器人问题发表评论。

From the Palantir co-founder, one of tech’s boldest thinkers and The Economist’s “best CEO of 2024,” and his deputy, a sweeping indictment of the West’s culture of complacency, arguing that timid leadership, intellectual fragility, and an unambitious view of technology’s potential in Silicon Valley have made the U.S. vulnerable in an era of mounting global threats. “Fascinating...(展开全部)

"The Technological Society is one of the most important books of the second half of the twentieth century. In it, Jacques Ellul convincingly demonstrates that technology, which we continue to conceptualize as the servant of man, will overthrow everything that prevents the internal logic of its development, including humanity itself -- unless we take the necessary steps to move ...(展开全部)

What is literature? What is the quality in a text that leads a reader to call it 'literary'? What is the 'certain way' of reading that calls into being the literary potential of a text? Why have we been unable to definitively answer these questions, and where does that leave us? Derek Attridge argues that the impossibility of definition leaves us at a beginning. From the point ...(展开全部)

What is literature? What is the quality in a text that leads a reader to call it 'literary'? What is the 'certain way' of reading that calls into being the literary potential of a text? Why have we been unable to definitively answer these questions, and where does that leave us? Derek Attridge argues that the impossibility of definition leaves us at a beginning. From the point ...(展开全部)

The Iliad and Beowulf provide rich sources of historical information. The novels of Henry Fielding and Henry James may be instructive in the art of moral living. Some go further and argue that Emile Zola and Harriet Beecher Stowe played a part in ameliorating the lives of those existing in harsh circumstances. However, as Derek Attridge argues in this outstanding and acclaimed ...(展开全部)

The noted inventor and futurist's successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will refashion the human race in the decades to come Since it was first published in 2005, Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Near and its vision of the future have been influential in spawning a worldwide movement with millions of followers, hundreds of books, major ...(展开全部)

In the twenty-first century man created the Eschaton, a sentient artificial intelligence. It pushed Earth through the greatest technological evolution ever known, while warning that time travel is forbidden, and transgressors will be eliminated. Distant descendants of this ultra high-tech Earth live in parochial simplicity on the far-flung worlds of the New Republic. Their way ...(展开全部)

查尔斯·斯特罗斯：布莱福德大学修计算机科学硕士。出生在英格兰北端邻近苏格兰的利兹，儿时便立志当科幻作家。八年间出版了十六本长篇小说。作品屡次入围雨果奖、英伦科幻协会奖、约翰·坎贝尔纪念奖及轨迹奖等众多科幻大奖。 《奇点天空》于2003年出版后入围了2004年雨果奖，在轨迹奖年度排名第七，也在译成日文后入围日本星云赏。 . 寇乐眉：译作多署名denovo。海外科学工作者，闲来读书写字，爬山潜水，溜冰滑雪，无一不好而无一能精。一生做事三心二意蜻蜓点水，唯有科幻翻译竟然兢兢业业坚持至今，只能用一个词解释——有爱！ . 郭泽，业余翻译爱好者，尤喜科幻。 已出版幻想类翻译作品：长篇《西塔甘达》、《孤儿远征军》、《提升之战》、《雪崩》等；中短篇《冰龙》、《卡米洛特的最后一个卫士》《时代之子》。

Four hundred years in the future, time travel has been perfected and groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence have been made. But is this a great step forward for humanity--or its ultimate downfall?