EXEGESIS – ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION

'I will sleep. But shall I dream?”, asked the supercomputer HAL in Arthur Clarke's A Space Odyssey. Today, 35 years later, ENDCAR, a program brought to life by a mistake by student Alice Lu, is asking a similar question of its designer. How does a human respond to a machine? Through an original way of writing - the exchange of e-mail messages - creator and created learn from each other, shape each other's personalities, express the concerns of the author/programmer and grandson of the creator of the hydrogen bomb, Astro Teller and are driven in a finale that leaves more questions than it answers. Exegesis is a book that would not have existed had it not been for the Internet and the technology it brought with it. The questions are always the same but the language and writing are new and will captivate any reader. The edition in the language of the Internet (Greek written in the Greek alphabet), makes the bet even bigger - another language written in another alphabet and with an audience of 2000 readers. And of course it is also on the Internet - take a look at http: //www.randomhouse.com/vintage/exegesis/