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Chargement... The Fear Index (original 2011; édition 2012)par Robert Harris (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreL'indice de la peur par Robert Harris (2011)
  
Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.   Dermot_Butler | Nov 8, 2023 |   ) kwskultety | Jul 4, 2023 |  ) Castlelass | Oct 30, 2022 |  ) tarsel | Sep 4, 2022 | Story is Alex Hoffman who owns a big Hedge fund that is very successful and makes lots of money. He has programmed his computers to buy and sell stocks. Alex thinks someone is out to get him. He is attacked at home and follows someone who believes is after him. The system grows and has a mind of his own. Alex's wife Gabrielle wants to leave him. Hugo Quarry is Alex's right hand man and wants to help but also make more money. Alex goes to a Hotel to meet someone and kills him. One of Alexs member of staff dies in a lift shaft. It turns out Alex was stalking himself and making very strange choices. OK book . ( ) Daftboy1 | Mar 2, 2022 |
Humans have emerged as the top predators of the biosphere, but Harris warns that a new life form, brilliant and brutal, could be emerging from our algorithms, silicon chips and fiber-optic lines. Corporations aren’t people, he tells us, but they will be alive. Will we survive the rise of the machines? Lovers of the “Terminator” and “Matrix” films know the answer. In evolution, as with a prospectus, past performance is no guarantee of future results.  Is “The Fear Index” fearmongering? Possibly. Like most dystopian novels, it taps into anxieties - about the mysterious workings of computers in this case. Like the best novels of this genre, it offers something to chew on - and it’s entertaining.'  When the reason behind the eerie incidents becomes apparent, the effect is chilling—and, for some characters, fatal. Only when the plot's smoke clears will certain fussy readers feel their suspension of disbelief plummeting and say: Now, wait a minute. That's another kind of flash crash. “. . . the premise of The Fear Index by Robert Harris is seriously creepy. . . . The Fear Index is a solid, competent techno-thriller, carefully researched and intelligently executed. If you enjoy this genre—and who doesn’t now and then?—put this one on your to-be-read list.” Foreboding runs through the system of The Fear Index like an IV drip. But if the novel sells itself short anywhere, it's in the author's clearly conscious decision to sacrifice character development for the sake of story pace. Still, it doesn't take a super-computer to know The Fear Index is a worthwhile investment of your time. Prix et récompensesDistinctions
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HTML:At the nexus of high finance and sophisticated computer programming, a terrifying future may be unfolding even now. Dr. Alex Hoffmanns name is carefully guarded from the general public, but within the secretive inner circles of the ultrarich he is a legend. He has developed a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence that predicts movements in the financial markets with uncanny accuracy. His hedge fund, based in Geneva, makes billions. But one morning before dawn, a sinister intruder breaches the elaborate security of his lakeside mansion, and so begins a waking nightmare of paranoia and violence as Hoffmann attempts, with increasing desperation, to discover who is trying to destroy him. Fiendishly smart and suspenseful, The Fear Index gives us a searing glimpse into an all-too-recognizable world of greed and panic. It is a novel that forces us to confront the question of what it means to be humanand it is Robert Harriss... Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque 
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