- Published: 22 July 2021
- ISBN: 9781473593152
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: Audio Download
- RRP: $30.00
12 Bytes
How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and love
- Published: 22 July 2021
- ISBN: 9781473593152
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: Audio Download
- RRP: $30.00
Thought provoking and necessary
Guardian
Briskly and breezily, it [12 Bytes] joins the dots in a neglected narrative of female scientists, visionaries and code-breakers
Claire Armitstead, Observer
12 punchy, fact-laden and witty essays... Her writing engulfs you in lucid, fairytale-like realities that take you on gender-bending and time-warped explorations of religion, love, sex, and sexual identity.
Charlotte Cripps, Independent
An unusual and entertaining read...[12 Bytes] is inflected with the same delightful, dry humour as the rest of her work... With its imaginative, insightful and wide-ranging essays, 12 Bytes will undoubtedly prompt readers to begin their own circlings around AI.
Laura Grace Simpkins, New Scientist
Aspects of this AI future are frightening...[and] for any non-scientist wanting to understand the challenges and possibilities of this brave new world, I can't think of a more engaging place to start.
Stephanie Merritt, Observer
Quite brilliant.
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This is, among other things, a very funny book... we are hardly short of dystopias, fictional and otherwise. Winterson's approach is much richer and more fun: a kind of comparative mythology, where the hype and ideology of cutting-edge tech is read through the lens of far older stories.
Steven Poole, Spectator
[Winterson's] essays...are agile, fascinating, richly varied and beautifully idiosyncratic.
Joanna Kavenna, Literary Review
Winterson... is always passionate and provocative.
Johanna Thomas-Corr, New Statesman
Refreshingly optimistic.
Steven Poole, Guardian
Lively, frequently laugh-aloud funny...the 12 essays use a combination of history, literature, religion, science fiction and electronics to extend our mental horizons.
Christina Hardyment, The Times, *Audiobooks of the Year*
[Winterson] reflects on the history - and future - of technology in essays that whirr with anarchic intelligence
Daily Telegraph
What makes this audiobook essential listening is not just its content...but the electricity of Winterson's narration. Lively, funny...the 12 essays in 12 Bytes use history, science fiction and electronics to extend our mental horizons.
Christina Hardyment, The Times, *Audiobook of the Week*
Wry, reflective and acerbic essays looking at the impact of artificial intelligence.
Guardian