Chen Qiufan – författare

Brought to you by Penguin. In this ground-breaking blend of imaginative storytelling and scientific forecasting, a pioneering AI expert and a leading writer of speculative fiction join forces to answer an imperative question: How will artificial intelligence change our world within twenty years?AI will be the defining development of the twenty-first century. Within two decades, aspects of daily human life will be unrecognizable. AI will generate unprecedented wealth, revolutionize medicine and education through human-machine symbiosis, and create brand new forms of communication and entertainment. In liberating us from routine work, however, AI will also challenge the organizing principles of our economic and social order. Meanwhile, AI will bring new risks in the form of autonomous weapons and smart technology that inherits human bias. AI is at a tipping point, and people need to wake up-both to AI''s radiant pathways and its existential perils for life as we know it.In this provocative, utterly original work of "scientific fiction," Kai-Fu Lee, the former president of Google China and bestselling author of AI Superpowers, joins forces with celebrated novelist Chen Qiufan to imagine our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by AI. In ten gripping short stories, set twenty years in the future, they introduce readers to an array of eye-opening 2041 settings:In San Francisco, a new industry, "job reallocation," arises to serve displaced workersIn Tokyo, a music fan is swept up in an immersive form of celebrity worshipIn Mumbai, a teenage girl rebels when AI gets in the way of romanceIn Seoul, virtual teachers offer orphaned twins new ways to learn and connectIn Munich, a rogue quantum computer scientist''s revenge plot imperils the worldBy gazing toward a not-so-distant horizon, AI 2041 offers urgent insights into our collective future-while reminding readers that, ultimately, humankind remains the author of its destiny.© Chen Qiufan 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FIRST NOVELAward-winning author Chen Qiufan''s Waste Tide is a thought-provoking future vision of how climate change affects the world.Translated by Ken Liu, who brought Cixin Liu''s Hugo Award-winning The Three Body Problem to English-speaking listeners.Mimi is a ''waste girl.’ A member of the lowest caste on Silicon Isle, located off China’s southeastern coast, and home to the world’s largest electronic waste recycling center. There, thousands of miles from home, Mimi struggles to earn a living for her family and dreams of a better life. Luo Jincheng is the head of one of three clans who run the island, a role passed down from his father and grandfather before him. As the government enforces tighter restrictions, Luo in turn tightens the reins on the waste workers in his employ. Ruthlessness is his means of survival. Scott Brandle has come to Silicon Isle representing TerraGreen Recycling, an American corporation that stands to earn ungodly sums if they can reach a deal to modernize the island’s recycling process. Chen Kaizong, a Chinese American, travels to Silicon Isle as Scott’s interpreter. There, Kaizong is hoping to find his heritage, but finds only more questions. The home he longs for may not exist.As these forces collide, a dark futuristic virus is unleashed on the island. Against the backdrop of a gritty near-future Chinese landscape, in a world of body modifications and virtual reality, a war erupts -- between the rich and the poor; between ancient traditions and modern ambition; between humanity’s past and its future.

MAAILMA ON RAUNIOINA. OLETKO PELAAJA VAI PELINAPPULA?

Mimi on jätteenkäsittelijä. Lupaukset työstä ja paremmasta elämästä ovat houkutelleet hänet ja lukemattomat muut köyhät Kiinan etelärannikolle Piisaarelle, missä työläisten tehtävä on purkaa ja lajitella myrkyllistä elektroniikkajätettä.

Piisaari on kuitenkin lohduttoman saastunut ja jätteenkäsittelijät pahasti valtaapitävien ikeen alla. Myrsky nousee, kun paikalliset valtaklaanit, ekoterroristit ja ahneet monikansalliset yhtiöt kamppailevat rahasta ja vallasta.

Kilpailevien voimien yhteentörmäys antaa kipinän sodalle, jossa vastakkain ovat köyhät ja rikkaat, mennyt ja tuleva. Mimin on tehtävä valinta: tyytyykö hän sodassa pelinappulan rooliin, vai määritteleekö hän uudet pelisäännöt itse.

Chen Qiufan (myös Stanley Chan) on palkittu kiinalainen tieteiskirjailija. Vuonna 2013 julkaistu Jättömaa on hänen esikoisromaaninsa.