The Two Faces Of Tomorrow

About this book

Midway through the 21st century an integrated global computer network manages much of the worlds affairs. A proposed major software upgrade - an artificial intelligence - will give the system an unprecedented degree of independent decision-making but serious questions are raised in regard to how much control can safely be given to a non-human intelligence. In order to more fully assess the system a new space-station habitat - a world in miniature - is developed for deployment of the fully operational system named Spartacus. This mini-world can then be "attacked" in a series of escalating tests to assess the systems responses and capabilities. If Spartacus gets out of hand the system can be shut down and the station destroyed... unless Spartacus decides to take matters into its own hands and take the fight to Earth.