The past year turned out to be such that the entire Internet at once remembered that it was kind of like in ancient China “so that you live in interesting times” was by no means a good wish. The times are really interesting, perhaps someone will really tell their grandchildren how they lived during the global pandemic.
Science fiction writers also like to talk about world epidemics. Or not worldwide, but a variety of viruses and diseases like to invent precisely, and at times absolutely incredible. And here are some striking examples of this.
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
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The translation of all knowledge of the world into “digital”, which is equal to the control of this knowledge, as well as the unreliability and “illusion” of virtuality - one side of the coin. Questions of what it means to be human, as well as what a human genius is capable of, is different. The virus is a rib. He is somewhere in between, connected with both, sewing together individual parts. And, of course, he is not what it seems at first glance. Just a cog in a complex and beautiful, albeit sometimes too confusing, plot machine.