The Enigma Stolen Paperback / softback
by CHARLES BREAKFIELD, Roxanne (Dear Texas Inc and Texas Authors Institute of History) Burkey
Part of the Enigma series
Paperback / softback
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The 5th story in The Enigma Series, The Enigma Stolen, shows how big data can play a huge factor in understanding the future. The correct data, carefully gathered and managed can use sophisticated algorithms to accurately predict, and then alter if desired, the future.
Is it possible that human behavior appears erratic and unpredictable only because humans are too close to the action? To the cold, impartial circuits of a modern supercomputer, human behavior is simply a complex set of algorithms to be compiled, analyzed, and predicted. How can this be a means to and end for planning what humans can and will do?
Control the flow of human behavior, and you control the future. Cut a nervous investor off in traffic, and you initiate a stock market crash. Engineer a love affair, and you destabilize a nation. All you need is unlimited computing power—and the ethical nihilism to manipulate lives.
The R-Group, a high-level information gathering and security team, believes at least one group—possibly several—are using data analysis to customize the future in their image.
Powerful and mysterious, these groups are very good at what they do—possibly as good as the R-Group themselves. And even as EZ, Jacob, Quip, and the rest of R-Group battle to identify their foes, a hidden threat lurks within the team itself.
Unless the R-Group can neutralize the threat, humanity’s future will be determined by a select few, feeding an ever-growing stream of information into increasingly sophisticated computer systems. Which begs the question: Who controls whom?
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:350 pages
- Publisher:Icabod Press
- Publication Date:08/03/2017
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- ISBN:9781946858122
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:350 pages
- Publisher:Icabod Press
- Publication Date:08/03/2017
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- ISBN:9781946858122
