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EXISTENCE. [Buy it!] | Brin David. | USD 20.00 (Tue Jun 4 14:14:38 2024) | Biblio | Bookfever.com, IOBA | New York:: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates,, (Date: 2012). Hardcover -. Very good in very good dust jacket (toning to edges of textblock). 2nd printing. A futuristic science fiction novel. "Telepresence. Global security. Everyone watching everyone, all the time. Anything interesting draws a flash crowd of ten million eyes. One man in Afghanistan live-tweets a special forces attack, and the world tunes in. Revolutions coordinate online. And that's today! Tomorrow, you'll wear the Web, immersed in augmented overlays. Your aiware glasses will ID, name-tag, and tattle on each person you walk by, in a global village of ten billion souls. But instant access to all of human knowledge only widens the gulf between those eager for tomorrow - and those fearing an end to human existence." Afterword, follow-up resources. 557 pp. 2012. TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, ISBN 0765303612 9780765303615 [US] |