Dominant Life Form - Softcover

Marino, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595365078 ISBN 13: 9780595365074

Publisher: iUniverse, 2005

Synopsis

Dominant Life Form chronicles a secret project whose mission's success or failure will determine the future of earth's native intelligences. Set inside the only chance earth will have to create true intelligent reproducing robots, AI creation proceeds from individual battles of the team with self to increasingly complex layers of what it means to be conscious. Even their human creators do not know if they will coexist with the beings they are designing, or will find themselves in second place behind a new dominant life form.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Eric Lorenz, ex-scientist, ex-entrepreneur, finds himself drawn into a mysterious project concerning robotic development. Run by an all but unseen eccentric old man, Lorenz deals more and more intimately with office robots instead of fellow humans, and working to constantly improve them. He discovers a handful of other humans are performing similar functions at scattered locations across the country, but to what end is unclear. The consuming nature of scientific inquiry and the inept relationship ability of the human members of the team combines to form an eclectic and dynamic group whose skills produce results beyond their vision. Beyond their ability to know what will come of it in the race for Dominant Life Form.

About the Author:

Charles J. Marino was born in the Bronx, New York and holds a BS and MS in nuclear engineering from Columbia University. His various occupations included bond and commodities trading on Wall Street, founding several small computer companies, portfolio manager, and now his first novel. He has more robots than friends, but they?re good ones.

About this edition

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0595365078
• ISBN 13: 9780595365074
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200