Book review of Where the Ax Is Buried by Ray Nayler

Dictators weaponize new technologies in fact and fiction

When Ray Nayler began writing his science-fiction novel about a repressive regime powered by artificial intelligence, he didn’t expect the story to be as timely as it turned out to be. He really wishes it wasn’t. “This is not a world that I think we should want to live in, and I would love it if it is a world that we completely avoid, and if the book seems in 10 to 20 years to be extraordinarily naive in its predictions,” Nayler says in the late…

Book review of Where the Ax Is Buried by Ray Nayler

Ray Nayler’s view of our future in Where the Axe Is Buried can be described as bleak, at best. In the West, AI constructs have replaced prime ministers. Their programs of rationalization, meant to optimize human life and each country’s economic well-being, seem instead to entrench their citizens semicomfortably in the class divisions that have … The post Book review of Where the Ax Is Buried by Ray Nayler appeared first on W CNN RADIO NEWS.