CanLit and the Hyper-Modern 1
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AI is in the process of being replaced by artificial general intelligence — known by the acronym AGI.
Many novelists have dealt with this potentiality — most famously, perhaps, Arthur C. Clark in 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Stanley Kubrick adaptation of that novel was so groundbreaking as a work of cinema that it’s eclipsed the novel’s place in the cultural firmament. But it was a novel that inspired the movie.
In Cdn letters, there have been speculative fiction examples. But not nearly with the same cultural impact. Why?
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