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"Aveugle de naissance, Caitlin a bénéficié d'une expérience révolutionnaire : un chercheur Japonais lui a implanté une prothèse censée remédier à la défaillance de son nerf optique. Cette technique a eu des effets secondaires inattendus, la rendant capable de voir le réseau Internet et de communiquer avec lui, l'éveillant peu à peu à la conscience.
Veille raconte l'établissement d'une relation entre l'Intelligence Artificielle spontanée, entité nommé Webmind, et la jeune ex-aveugle. À mesure que l'IA apprend, grâce à Caitlin, à lire et donc à avoir accès aux ressources encyclopédiques du net, puis à déchiffrer des images et des films, elle découvre l'humanité, ses forces et ses faiblesses, et l'univers cosmique.
Mais bientôt, l'agence gouvernementale secrète chargée de surveiller Internet, convaincue que Webmind représente un risque pour la sécurité nationale, décide de l'éradiquer. Peut-on en effet laisser survivre une entité qui dispose de connaissances et de pouvoirs formidables alors qu'on ignore tout de ses intentions ? Persuadée que Webmind a pour unique dessein d'aider l'humanité, Caitlin va tout faire pour protéger son amie l'IA."
(Résumé de l'édition Robert Laffont, collection Ailleurs & Demain)
"One of the best things about Robert J. Sawyer is the way he references pop sci-fi culture; every book contains at least one reference to Star Trek. But in this novel, second in a trilogy about the singularity — the artificial-intelligence consciousness that is predicted to arise from the Internet — he gets to reference his own sci-fi TV creation, the ABC program FlashForward. It's fun, but even better is the intelligent and compassionate approach this series is taking to the nature of consciousness. Sawyer's previous works on the subject have made clear that he believes it is consciousness that makes us human; his novels often cite very real research on the subject. But is it our physical being that makes us empathetic, humane and loving — as well as cruel, selfish and mean? Not necessarily. In WWW: Watch, Webmind offers a third option: the tabula rasa mind that chooses humanity." —Kel Munger in Sacramento News & Review
"Like Wake, the first in the series, Watch is a fascinating novel. Its blend of the fantastic, the technological, the literary and the logical flows effortlessly through the power of Sawyer's words. We're not trying to be too hyperbolic by any means, but it's hard not to get swept away in his distinctive hand, and by the ideas that he presents in the body of the text. Sawyer's extrapolation is thrilling. This is a great science fiction novel, a melding of Frankenstein, high technology and our own perspectives as people, brought into the context of the modern world with the skill and panache of an exemplary practitioner of the form." —SciFi Now
"After the success of Wake, Hugo Award-winning author Robert J. Sawyer returns with the second in the WWW trilogy, Watch. Sawyer continues the great storytelling from Wake, discussing the concepts of game theory, and what a sentient presence on the Internet could really mean for the world in his comfortable, conversational way. [Four stars out of four.]" —Alex C. Telander on The Book Banter Blog
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