Echoland : a comprehensive guide to a nonexistent place
(2023)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
303.4834/ROBINSON,N

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 303.4834/ROBINSON,N Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New Orleans, LA : Current Affairs Press, [2023]
©2023
EDITION
First U.S. edition
DESCRIPTION

265 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780997844764, 0997844760, 9780997844764
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"Note: Nothing you see in this book is real. None of the people or places depicted actually exists--yet. ... [It] is comprised of original material that I have created using the latest in "AI" image-generation tools (Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, DALL-E). ... These powerful tools can, I believe be used as an important aid to creative expression. ... I hope this book contributes to the conversaiton [i.e., conversation] about how to integrate them in a way that helps rather than hurts those who create for a living. The overall message of this book is a simple one: Humanity's future can be either miraculously wonderful or devastatingly horrible. Which path we choose is up to us. We do not need to fear the future. But we do need to face up to the responsibility we have to ensure that those who come after us inherit the best world we can make for them. I hope this book encourages readers to think more clearly about how the world could change in the coming years and how we can make sure those changes are for the better. - Nathan J. Robinson, New Orleans, LA, April 2023"--Page 9

Using artificial intelligence image-generation tools, including Midjourney, Stable Diffusion and DALL-E, along with accompanying text, the author presents a vision of society's socialist future, formed and transformed by artificial intelligence