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What ​if our civilization is more advanced than we know?

The New York Times bestselling author of Daemon --"the cyberthriller against which all others will be measured" -Publishers Weekly) --imagines a world in which decades of technological advances have been suppressed in an effort to prevent disruptive change.

Are smart phones really humanity's most significant innovation since the moon landings? Or can something else explain why the bold visions of the 20th century--fusion power, genetic enhancements, artificial intelligence, cures for common disease, extended human life, and a host of other world-changing advances--have remained beyond our grasp? Why has the high-tech future that seemed imminent in the 1960's failed to arrive?

Perhaps it did arrive…but only for a select few.

Particle physicist Jon Grady is ecstatic when his team achieves what they've been working toward for years: a device that can reflect gravity. Their research will… (tovább)

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 2014

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Dutton, New York, 2014
416 oldal · ISBN: 9780525953180

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Daniel Suarez: Influx

Tudósok, fantasztikus találmányok, jövőbeli technológia, árnyékhatalom – mi a csudát akarnál még egy jó kis kalandos sci-fitől? Ismertetőm a regényről az SFmagon: http://sfmag.hu/2014/03/17/a-tudas-hatalom-daniel-suare…


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“Why do you resist what’s in your and humanity’s best interest?”
“Because I don’t believe that it is. You’re telling me everything will be fine if I agree to be your slave.”
“We’re not asking you to be a slave.”
“Then you’re asking me to be a slaver—and that’s even worse.”

CHAPTER 6 Exile

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Anything before you’re thirty-five is new and exciting, and anything after that is proof the world’s going to hell.

CHAPTER 5 Master Copy


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