AI IN CYBERPUNK
Film and television
Literature
- Pat Cadigan
** Indigo
** Mindplayers--Deadpan Allie is a sort of future psychiatrist who works on her
patients by entering virtual representations of their psyches.
** Patterns
** Synners--A long, detailed look at a cyberpunk L.A. AI's, Virtual reality,
viruses, drug enhancements, megacorps... the usual. Multiple plot-
lines trace several major and minor character's lives while describ-
ing the future in great detail. An interesting way to pass the
time, but a bit bogged down in itself.
1991.
- William Gibson
** Burning Chrome (anthology)
** Count Zero--A sequel to Neuromancer; free-agent AIs roam cyberspace and involve themselves in the affairs
of more worldly parties
** Mona Lisa Overdrive--A member of the cloistered family destroyed in Neuromancer, members
of the Yakuza, and others take an interest in a girl born with the
capability to interface directly to the net without the need for
external hardware.
** Neuromancer--An artificial-intelligent computer controls the interests of a
super-powerful family has discovered a method to free itself from a
crippling case of multiple personality disorder.
** The Difference Engine--In 19th century England, Babbage's Analytical Engine is a reality,
allowing the government to keep an eye on its citizens as everything
done is recorded by the engines of the police and government. Crim-
inology and pure mathematics are born at the same time as the envi-
ronmental effects of steam engines and information loss via heat
death impact the residents of London.
- Greg Bear
** Beyond Heaven's River
** Blood Music--A genetic engineer first creates super-intelligent viruses and then
self-injects them when he is fired in an attempt to save his work.
The viruses spread across the world and produce a collision between
observer based information theory and reality.