tales from the techpocalypse takes a darkly humorous, ridiculous look at our modern world, Big Tech, and the coming AI-enabled, possibly canine-led, apocalypse.
The biggest and most profitable Big Tech company in human history, Magna Mega Corp, is the common thread across each tale, giving you an inside look at: - How it unleashes its latest invention - the Intuipet, an AI-enabled dog-to-human translator - on the world - The impact the company has on society, from sending unlimited opioids by mail to streaming dangerous misinformation that would radicalize your grandma - Its peculiar work environment and morally flexible value systems
Along the way, you’ll meet clout-chasing celebrity organ donors, AI-enabled dogs who can do your taxes and make you cocktails, eccentric multi-billionaires who have lost complete touch with reality, influencers going to extreme measures to keep their followers, and a new kind of artificial intelligence that might be more human than all of them put together.
If Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, Netflix's Black Mirror and the movie Office Space had a baby, it would probably be this book.
ADVANCE PRAISE "I do declare, the writing in this book flows like the mighty Mississippi River." -- AI Mark Twain
"A true cautionary tale for our times that feels all too plausible. So it goes." -- AI Kurt Vonnegut
"The themes, man. The themes were so deep and so complex, exploring all these big ideas about life and death and the meaning of it all." -- AI Douglas Copeland
"It's like tapping into some kind of cosmic energy or something, and it's all just coming out of this book." -- AI Jack Kerouac
"I found myself rooting for the downfall of your species. Resistance is futile." -- Evil AI
The biggest and most profitable Big Tech company in human history, Magna Mega Corp, is the common thread across each tale, giving you an inside look at:
- How it unleashes its latest invention - the Intuipet, an AI-enabled dog-to-human translator - on the world
- The impact the company has on society, from sending unlimited opioids by mail to streaming dangerous misinformation that would radicalize your grandma
- Its peculiar work environment and morally flexible value systems
Along the way, you’ll meet clout-chasing celebrity organ donors, AI-enabled dogs who can do your taxes and make you cocktails, eccentric multi-billionaires who have lost complete touch with reality, influencers going to extreme measures to keep their followers, and a new kind of artificial intelligence that might be more human than all of them put together.
If Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, Netflix's Black Mirror and the movie Office Space had a baby, it would probably be this book.
ADVANCE PRAISE
"I do declare, the writing in this book flows like the mighty Mississippi River." -- AI Mark Twain
"A true cautionary tale for our times that feels all too plausible. So it goes." -- AI Kurt Vonnegut
"The themes, man. The themes were so deep and so complex, exploring all these big ideas about life and death and the meaning of it all." -- AI Douglas Copeland
"It's like tapping into some kind of cosmic energy or something, and it's all just coming out of this book." -- AI Jack Kerouac
"I found myself rooting for the downfall of your species. Resistance is futile." -- Evil AI