Books

Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Cyberspace by Douglas Rushkoff: With the information revolution underway, Rushkoff writes this documentary about the emerging appropriation of information.  Written in 1994, Rushkoff is surprisingly accurate about the later decade’s cyberspace and hackers.

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick: Bounty Hunter Rick Deckard is tasked with killing six escaped androids while John Isidore attempts to free fugitive androids. Dick depicts what makes someone human or not.

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Neuromancer by William Gibson: Henry Case is a renowned hacker, so his previous employers cripple his nervous system, disabling him from entering the matrix dataspace. With the help of a street samurai, Case takes on one final job.

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Accelerando by Charles Stross: In this posthuman era, molecular nanotechnology attempts to speed up cosmic evolution. We follow three generations through Macx, his daughter Amber, and her son Sirhan.

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“I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison: After a third world war brought the demise of humanity, a supercomputer designed to run war becomes aware and hates humanity. For this, it tortures the lives of five humans trying to survive.