Control

by August Cole

Dans un futur proche, les États-Unis sont en proie à une révolution politique et technologique : le déploiement à grande échelle des intelligences artificielles, qui a laissé sur le carreau des millions de citoyens rendus obsolètes. Après avoir fait échouer de justesse un attentat à Washington, l'agent spécial Lara Keegan se lance sur la piste d'un redoutable réseau terroriste qui utilise des technologies de pointe pour lutter contre l'emprise des entités robotiques sur la société américaine. Mais pour réussir cette mission, elle va devoir former une alliance avec un collègue d'un nouveau genre...

624 pages, Pocket Book

Published June 1, 2023

About the author

August Cole is an author exploring the future of conflict through fiction and other forms of “FICINT” (fiction+intelligence) storytelling. His talks, short stories, and workshops have taken him from speaking at the Nobel Institute in Oslo to presenting at SXSW Interactive to tackling the “Dirty Name” obstacle at Fort Benning. With Peter W. Singer, he is the co-author of the best-seller “Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War” (2015) and “Burn In: A Novel of the Real Robot Revolution” (2020).

He is a non-resident senior fellow at the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security at the Atlantic Council; he directed the Council’s Art of the Future Project, which explores creative and narrative works for insight into the future of conflict, from its inception in 2014 through 2017. He works on creative futures at SparkCognition, an artificial intelligence company. August is a regular speaker to private sector, academic and US and allied government audiences.