Fleurieu Living Magazine

Spring book reviews

Machines Like Me

by Ian McEwan

Published by Jonathan Cape (an imprint of Vintage)

ISBN 9781787331662

$29.99

From a reimagined Britain of the 1980s, prolific and prize-winning author Ian McEwan sketches what the beginnings of sophisticated, human-like robots charged with highly developed artificial intelligence might look like. While transferring a visible future into a transfigured past, he explores what such machines might represent and become. Might they be toys, slaves, ‘ambulant laptops’ or an improved version of humanity, a reference point to better our behaviours? Are they a passport to increased leisure, unshackling us from drudgery, or do they level a substantial threat against our sense

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