Ogljik & Silicij

Carbon & Silicon

Publishing Company:
VIGEVAGE KNJIGE
Imprint:
RISOROMANIACS
Format:
SERIES
Creator(s):

MATHIEU BABLET (ART AND STORY)
SAšA JERELE (TRANSLATION)
Number of Pages:

272
Publication Date:

2022
Age:
ADULT, YOUNG ADULT
Fiction/Non-Fiction
FICTION
Key words:
SCIENCE-FICTION,
Summary:

Professor Noriko Ito, director of research at the Tomorrow Foundation Corporation, describes how the “Carbon & Silicon” project came about on the first page of Mathieu Bablet’s novel:
In the beginning, we fed our artificial intelligence with limitless amounts of data, thereby creating wells of completely useless knowledge. So what did we miss? What is the difference between big data and intelligence?

How should we create a human UI?
Then connect both robots. Their journey can begin. The company, which developed both robots and all others from their series in a controlled laboratory environment without contact with the outside world, and then offered them to the market, also set a maximum lifespan for them – 15 years. But what would happen if the two robots, initially designed to work with the elderly in nursing homes, wanted to live longer? To travel, see the world, feel freedom? Carbon and Silicon, female and male robots, each choose their own path through the life cycle, but their paths constantly intertwine in a cataclysmic world that is literally falling apart before their eyes. They are connected by an attachment that stems from exactly what they are constantly questioning: their closeness to humanity.
This extraordinary risoronome by French comic Mathieu Bablet is his first work translated into Slovenian.