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Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he co-designs Adam's personality.This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever - and soon a love triangle forms, which leads Charlie, Miranda and Adam to a profound moral dilemma. Can you design the perfect partner? What makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Provocative and moving, Machines Like Me explores whether a machine can ever truly understand the human heart. [site éditeur].
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Machines like me, Ian McEwan
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- Released
- 2019
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- Title
- Machines like me
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Ian McEwan
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Released
- 2019
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN10
- 1529111269
- ISBN13
- 9781529111262
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Science Fantasy, Gifts for men, Literary Fiction, Great Britain, English Literature, Dystopia, London, Lies, Alternate History, Artificial Intelligence, Morality, Robots, 1980s, Androids, Brexit, Margaret Thatcher, 1925-2013, Alan Turing, 1912–1954
- First published
- 2019
- Original title
- Machines Like Me
- Rating
- 3.55 out of 5
- Description
- Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he co-designs Adam's personality.This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever - and soon a love triangle forms, which leads Charlie, Miranda and Adam to a profound moral dilemma. Can you design the perfect partner? What makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Provocative and moving, Machines Like Me explores whether a machine can ever truly understand the human heart. [site éditeur].