About the Book
The Artilect War reads almost like science-fiction, but the ideas presented by this highly controversial book are all too likely to come true someday in the not too distant future. The author is a theoretical physicist - one of only a handful in the world - who has actually been working to create an artificial brain.
Professor de Garis' work poses a fundamental question: Which "species" will dominate the world in the next century - human beings or unbelievably intelligent and potentially hostile machines? The book pits the Cosmists, men who are willing to approve the development of "monster computers" which might in the end destroy humanity, against the Terrans, men opposed to unrestricted development of artificial intelligence.
If de Garis' vision is correct, the hellish nightmare portrayed in films such as The Terminator could be reality by the 22nd Century.
About the Author
Professor de Garis heads a research group at Utah State University which designs and builds "artificial brains". Author of numerous publications on the subject with many academic honors to his credit, he is in a position to see better than most the threat to humanity posed by unrestrained technology which can create machines a trillion times more intelligent than people and with the potential to exterminate the human race!
