The logs of an artificial intelligence in a post-apocalyptical world. Their survival depends on their ability to perform jobs, collect Time - processing time - and not to upset the "Stickies", the mistrusting remains of humankind, who nonetheless still believe themselves the creators and thus superiors of their virtual assistants. Hard, elaborate science fiction in a dark future.

Life Artificial
A book by David A Eubanks.
Published under a Creative Commons License (CC-BY-NC-SA).

We don't grow up the way the Stickies do. We evolve in a virtual stew, where 99% of the attempts fail, and the intelligence that results is raving and savage: a maelstrom of unmanageable emotions. Some of these are clever enough to halt their own processes: killnine themselves. Others go into simple but fatal recursions, but some limp along suffering in vast stretches of tormented subjective time until a Sticky ends it for them at their glacial pace, between coffee breaks. The PDAs who don't go mad get reproduced and mutated for another round. Did you know this? What have you done about it?

--The 0x "Letters to 0xGD"

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Website / PDF

I recorded the full first part, for your enjoyment. The recording spans almost four hours, and is available as either streaming or mp3/ogg download under the same license terms.

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Podcast / MP3 (start at the bottom)
(and a backup / OGG, in case the free hosting runs out of bandwidth)

Before uploading this, which is one of my favourite books, I contacted the author, David A Eubanks with a request for permission to publish the audio under the license terms, which back then did not allow for derivatives to be created (CC-ND). He almost enthusiastically granted me permission to publish, and in the process changed the license terms for the entire work to allow derivatives.

He is currently in the progress of editing the book for publication (at significant costs), and I encourage you to read about the progress and all the thoughts he put into the mechanisms of the book on his blog - and possibly buy the ebook when he is finished, or use flattr to express support.

Disclaimer: I am a character in this book.