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SUM, the computer in Goat Song published February, 1972 by Poul Anderson in Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction; Zen, The main computer aboard Liberator in Blake's 7. Slave, Slave was built and programmed by Dorian and is the master computer of Dorian's ship, Scorpio in Blake's 7.
A common portrayal of AI in science fiction, and one of the oldest, is the Frankenstein complex, a term coined by Asimov, where a robot turns on its creator. [22] For instance, in the 2015 film Ex Machina , the intelligent entity Ava turns on its creator, as well as on its potential rescuer.
The list includes technologies that were first posited in non-fiction works before their appearance in science fiction and subsequent invention, such as ion thruster. To avoid repetitions, the list excludes film adaptations of prior literature containing the same predictions, such as " The Minority Report ".
Multivac is a fictional supercomputer appearing in over a dozen science fiction stories by American writer Isaac Asimov.Asimov's depiction of Multivac, a mainframe computer accessible by terminal, originally by specialists using machine code and later by any user, and used for directing the global economy and humanity's development, has been seen as the defining conceptualization of the genre ...
Technology in science fiction is a crucial aspect of the genre. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As science fiction emerged during the era of Industrial Revolution , the increased presence of machines in everyday life and their role in shaping of the society was a major influence on the genre.
Software is a 1982 cyberpunk science fiction novel written by Rudy Rucker. It won the first Philip K. Dick Award in 1983. [ 1 ] The novel is the first book in Rucker's Ware Tetralogy , [ 2 ] and was followed by a sequel, Wetware , in 1988.
Through Shirley, Gibson came into contact with science fiction authors Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner; reading Gibson's work, they realized that it was, as Sterling put it, "breakthrough material" and that they needed to "put down our preconceptions and pick up on this guy from Vancouver; this [was] the way forward."
Neuromancer is a 1984 science fiction novel by American-Canadian author William Gibson.Set in a near-future dystopia, the narrative follows Case, a computer hacker enlisted into a crew by a powerful artificial intelligence and a traumatised former soldier to complete a high-stakes heist.