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Autonomous Decisions: Computing quandaries in short fiction<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who has, takes, or relinquishes control of computing software? The users, the corporations, the programmers, the State, or the algorithms and applications themselves? This short story collection explores the dynamics of who, or what, dominates\u2014or perhaps ought to dominate\u2014in our interactions with such technologies.

Car crash survivor Lubanzi in Claremont tries to get his new care robot to serve him more wine. An oncologist in a hospital in Athlone discovers that a donated radiation machine has a bug. Neev\u2019s digital retinal implant becomes uncontrollable. An AI home assistant snitches on daughter dearest smoking marijuana in her bedroom. An honest, hard-working student from Khayelitsha tries not to succumb to the dubious social credit app at his university.

Delve into the moral quandaries and flagrant violations of fictionalised current cases and scenarios in information technology as well as past transgressions, explored in ten short stories situated in South Africa and elsewhere in the 21st century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published by KREST Publishers<\/a>, 2025. ISBN: 978-0-7961-9536-4 (paperback) ; ISBN: 978-0-7961-9537-1 (eBook)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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