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Paperback Ù Look to Windward PDF ´ Look to PDF or look pdf, windward download, Look to pdf, Look to Windward ePUBHuge habitats controlled by a veteran AI and in comparison primitive archaic cultures that play with high tech Banks criticizes caste systems the process of deciding against or for war and the concepts of an afterlife that gets misused by ideology The discrepancy between an AI that should on the one hand protect all living beings in its sphere of influence and be as merciless as possible against attackers on the other hand As if a high ranking killer g
Paperback Ù Look to Windward PDF ´ Look to PDF or look pdf, windward download, Look to pdf, Look to Windward ePUBBack to Iain M Banks’ phenomenal Culture series of space opera set in a post scarcity universe where humans are the most powerful known species Well not really the humans but the massive AI entities originally created by humans thousands of years ago It is uite unusual for humanity to sort of be the top dog this is one of the most unusual features of the Culture universe Banks’ Culture setting bucks the current trend of dystopian fiction In this post scarcity society all of humanity have the AIs catering to our every whim Conseuently humans have become decadent self indulgent and uite ineffectual The AIs run everything fortunately they are loyal to and very protective of the descendants of their creatorsBooks in the Culture series are standalones and do not need to be read in any order Like most Culture book Look To Windward has a complicated
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