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One of the foremost science fiction writers of our generation(SF Site) comes to Ace with a trilogy of the Webs awakening.Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at mathand blind. Still, she can surf the net with the best of them, following its complex paths clearly in her mind. But Caitlins brain long ago co-opted her primary visual cortex to help her navigate online. So when she receives an implant to restore her sight, instead of seeing reality, the landscape of the World Wide Web explodes into her consciousness, spreading out all around her in a riot of colors and shapes. While exploring this amazing realm, she discovers somethingsome otherlurking in the background. And its getting more and more intelligent with each passing day
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- If it wasn't for Robert J. Sawyer's WWW trilogy I would never have heard of "the bicameral mind". The first book in particular is brimming with it.
- I recently read Robert J Sawyer's "WWW Trilogy", in which the main character has her blindness cured via technology [not a spoiler; reader knows this going into the first book].
The main character's acclimation to and approach to sight throughout the trilogy was interesting, and I recommend in view of this article.
- I'd like to recommend the WWW Trilogy by Robert J. Sawyer. It explores the thoughts behind the instilment of conciousness and awareness. A highly thought provoking read that has a lot of neat parallels to this article.
- yeah, totally... I knew a couple of folks from our local association for the blind who took computer science classes in college.
Also, see WWW:Wake from Robert Sawyer.
- The first I heard of this book was when I read “WWW: Wake” by Robert J. Sawyer, which regards an emergent global AI out of the Internet. “WWW: Wake” also tries to demonstrate the emergent global AI's development into having a bicameral mind through China temporarily severing their [post global AI emergence] Internet from the rest of the world.
- There was a related chapter the last book of Robert J. Sawyer's "WWW Trilogy".
The AI throughout the thread survives for long enough to see Humanity evacuate the Earth given Sol's transformation to swallow the inner planets.
Copies of the Original AI had been spread across intersolar Human civilization, but the original technically speaking had to remain on Earth. That chapter was titled something along the lines of "Will the last human please turn off the sun" or similar [it's been at least 5 years for me on the reading].
