Kids Teens History Catalog Library Web Sites PowerSearch Home › Taxonomy term Women Mathematicians WWW: Wake by Robert Sawyer Wed, 08/11/2010 - 08:46 Chuck Gray in Blindness LibraryPoint Blog Post-Cyberpunk ... Science Fiction For science fiction aficionados, the premise of WWW: Wake by Robert J. Sawyer initially sounds, well, perhaps a bit contrived (even beyond the normal contrivances of science fiction). But keep reading: the protagonist, Caitlin Dector, is a young blind millennial who has never known a world without the Internet, a world she can navigate with ease through the use of assistive technologies . Caitlin becomes the subject of an experimental procedure to restore sight. However, when her vision is "switched on" she does not see the physical world, but an abstract representation of the World Wide Web. While exploring her strange new ability, she discovers a growing intelligence emerging from within the Web . . . see what I mean? My first thought after hearing this description was, "That sounds like the plot of a bad 90s Outer Limits episode." After cracking the book open however, I found | |
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