| H.P. Lovecraft: Do Shoggoths Dream of Orwellian Nightmares? (Collection #3) Contributor(s): Delaughter, John (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798650003298 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $10.44 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2020 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Utopias |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 5" W x 7.99" (0.51 lbs) 210 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Curious about what lies around the corner for humanity? -A Nuclear Winter? -A Global Pandemic? -A Push into Space?-A Despotic World Government?-A Global Famine?-Something Else? Trends are the tea leaves of modern prognosticators. Once wizards and witches donned their robes of runes & sigils to sift omens for signs of future events. Now, modern soothsayers don white lab coats, sit before screens crowded with statistics, and hope to divine tomorrows trends in today's entrails.In "H.P. LOVECRAFT: DO SHOGGOTHS DREAM OF ORWELLIAN NIGHTMARES?" You will explore: "Orwell's 1984 was meant to be a warning, not a guide..." Holly Richardson.-Will the world look like George Orwell's fictional. 1984?-Or will the earth look like Aldous Huxley's, Brave New World?"Men can use machines... but after a while the psychology of machine-habituation & machine-dependence becomes such that machines will be using the men..." HP Lovecraft. -Will humanity blend with technology and serve machines as in the Borg in Star Trek?-May a leap in evolution prevent machines from dominating humanity?-Will a test-tube bio-enhanced humanity rise above rogue Artificial Intelligence?-Or will A.I. make humanity obsolete and seek our annihilation? Dare you learn the lessons found in H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, of how the struggle between the proto-men of the dawn of time, the Elder Things, and their bio-engineered machines, the Shoggoths represents an early metaphor, about humanity and the rise of Artificial Intelligence? Or are you one of those Rare Breeds who question the societal forces that desire to rule you either by over-indulgence or authoritarian-inhibitions? Find out whether Lovecraft, in fiction and in fact, foresaw the early threads that Huxley and then Orwell later organized into their political views?Learn these things...And Much, Much, More Get you copy of "H.P. LOVECRAFT: DO SHOGGOTHS DREAM OF ORWELLIAN NIGHTMARES?" Now |