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Ein hochaktueller Roman über Chancen und Risiken künstlicher Intelligenz, der den Kopf beschäftigt und das Herz bewegt Richard Powers erzählt die Geschichte einer Wette: Kann ein Computer in zehn Monaten die Magisterprüfung in Englisch ablegen? Zwei Computerwissenschaftler treten gegeneinander an und machen einen Schriftsteller zum Coach der vernetzten Systeme, die eine Stimme und einen Namen erhalten. Doch als die Maschine fragt, was Liebe i...

A magnificent, multifaceted novel about a supremely gifted-and divided-family, set against the backdrop of postwar AmericaOn Easter day, 1939, at Marian Anderson's epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a German Jewish émigré scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Philadelphia Negro studying to be a singer. Their mutual love of music draws them together, and-against all odds and better judgment-they marry. They vow to raise their ...

Three Boston merchant brothers coax from an Irish immigrant the secret of making fine soap, and set into motion a chain of events that spins a family-run cottage soap works into a multinational consumer-goods giant.

In a Digital Laboratory, virtual-reality researchers rush to complete the Cavern, an empty white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast Byzantine cathedral. In a war-torn Mediterranean city, a young man is held hostage in another empty white room, equipped only with his imagination and memory. The two are doomed to meet in the white room of shared imagination that they unwittingly build in common.