Microsoft asked a number of sciencefictionschrijvers stories to make ge lwa nspireerd on several investigations that the it company is doing. The result is a free download of the book with short sciencefictionverhalen.
The stories of the writers in the anthology with the title “Future visions: original science fiction stories inspired by Microsoft’ are inspired by the work that the company from Redmond is doing in its different research centres. So, there are other stories that touch on different artificial-intelligentietechnieken such as the direct translation of spoken text.
The idea of Microsoft was to different authors with access to its facilities a look to give in a world in which many people still think that it is science fiction. With that knowledge, and the ability with the researchers to speak, could the authors the necessary inspiration. In the book nine stories by eleven different authors: Seanan McGuire, Greg Bear, Elizabeth Bear, Nancy Kress, Jack McDevitt, Robert J. Sawyer, David Brin, Ann Leckie, and a story in comic form from Blue Delliquanti and Michele Rosenthal, with drawings by Joey Camacho.
In the preface of the book says Harry Shum, head of Technology and Research department of Microsoft, the question: ‘is Affecting the science fiction of science, or affect the science the science fiction?’ Therein he get, of course, the influence of tv series like Star Trek. With the stories that both on fact as fantasy go, Microsoft wants to be a stand-alone bundle to deliver.
The Future Visions-pack is to download for Kobo, Kindle and iBooks. There is no separate download.
