Tire May 2038
Book - 2024
"What are the cues we use to determine humanity? Have we been cutting actual humans too much slack in this department? This work explores notions of identity and AI, but is solely the work of humans. For what is the difference between a human seeking a scripted outcome and a script seeking a human outcome? Also, it's pretty funny. John Ira Thomas takes his metafictional TIRE series into the future and looks back at the same weird beliefs that continue to propel us. It's 2038 and John Ira Thomas is nowhere to be found. A new, legally-mandated issue of TIRE magazine must be written. Corley Tire Company decides to farm the project out to AntiJITBot, an AI programmed with all of Thomas' writings. The result is an entire issu...e of a New Age magazine, right down to the classified ads. Once again, this was written by actual humans. No mystery digits or nightmare palettes. It's just some good old-fashioned human fun with technological concepts that we're going to have to resolve"--from publisher.
| Location | Call Number | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Floor New Shelf | SCIENCE FICTION/Thomas John Ira | (NEW SHELF) | Checked In |
- Subjects
- Genres
- Science fiction
- Published
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Iowa City, Iowa :
Candle Light Press
2024.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Item Description
- "You will not... you must not..."
"Tire, May 2038, volume 117, number 12, issue 1404." - Physical Description
- 172 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm
- ISBN
- 9780989537162