Книга The World that Remains Attilio Regimonti

The World that Remains

A Silent Technological Dystopia

Автор: Attilio Regimonti
Език: Английски език
Корици: С меки корици
Издател: Independently published
Наличност: Външен склад
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In the near future, the world does not collapse because of a war or a sudden catastrophe, but throug...

Информация за книгата

Автор
Език
Английски език
Корици
Книга - С меки корици
Издадена
2026
страници
48
EAN
9798245770321
Enbook ID
50854556
Издател
Теглоt
79
Размери
152 x 229 x 3

Пълно описание

In the near future, the world does not collapse because of a war or a sudden catastrophe, but through the gradual malfunction of the global digital networks. The technologies on which humanity has built every aspect of its existence cease to function, exposing a structural dependence on systems that have long since become incomprehensible.
Lucio Regis, a systems engineer, witnesses from within the failure of an infrastructure designed to compensate for every error. Anna Rossi, a politician accustomed to governing through data and predictive models, instead observes the rapid hollowing-out of institutions suddenly deprived of their instruments of control. In the technological silence, improvised communities emerge, imperfect decisions take shape, and a new slowness spreads across the planet-seemingly benefitting from humanity's forced deceleration.
Meanwhile, from the melting Arctic ice, an object of non-human origin surfaces, connected to the collapse of Earth's technologies. Contact reveals that this is not an invasion but an observation: an extraterrestrial civilization offers limited assistance, on the condition that humanity consciously renounce any return to its former model of total dependence.
The world that remains is a realistic, minimal dystopia that interrogates the present, portraying a silent catastrophe and an irreversible choice: what is left of the human being when it can no longer delegate everything to the systems it has created?