DJVU Halo by Tom Maddox mobi ibooks iphone
DJVU Halo by Tom Maddox mobi ibooks iphoneBook description
Book description
Tom Maddox has delivered an amazing book that explores the relationship between life, death, immortality, technology and our reliance upon it.The book seems like a typical storyline at first - Gonzales is an information auditor with a large corporation that handles information utilities. The story opens as Gonzales is reflecting on his last job, the end of which sees him nearly killed as guerilla pilots nearly shoot down his flight out of Myanmar. This near-death experience shakes him up, and as he describes to his memex, a personal computer that transcends the boundaries of what we think of as a computer, Im going to die, my friend ... Today, manana, some day for sure... and Im still trying to understand what that means to me now. This sets the stage for the rest of the book, which sees Gonzales flying to a space station whose very life and soul is its computer system named aptly named Aleph (the first letter in the Hebrew alphabet, the beginning). The story is described from Gonzales point of view, which is that of an at first detached observer who becomes personally involved in the tale. Aleph begins to merge with a human, who though being vegetative and later dying, merges with the computer, and the two (as well other characters) begin to explore the implications of this.
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