![]() ![]() Throughout its 300 pages, McEwan explores with dexterity, wit and a little intellectual smugness, what it means to be ‘human’. ![]() The book raises profound and uncomfortable questions around our relationship with our robot overlords and how we envisage this relationship in the future. As the book reaches its climax, McEwan challenges our notion of family, implores us to rethink our relationship with the justice system and unsettles our moral compass. A poignant sub-plot carefully, yet brutally, unfolds against the backdrop of this developing relationship with some disturbing and difficult consequences. Set in an alternative, super connected 1980s Britain, where Alan Turing is alive and well, Charlie invests his inheritance in, ‘a manufactured human with plausible intelligence and looks, believable motion and shifts of expression’, called Adam.īetween them, Miranda and Charlie programme Adam and he becomes their (sometimes unwelcome) companion. ![]() Machines Like Me tells the story of Charlie, his girlfriend Miranda and their humanoid companion. Ian McEwan, lauded as a ‘modern classic’, is author of a vast and varied back catalogue and in his newest offering, he returns to the darker and more incendiary tone of his early work. ![]() Machines Like Me explores themes of family, love, morality and what it means to be human. So it seemed fitting that we asked Amy to review Ian McEwan’s latest sci-fi. As Online Learning and Innovation Manager at GDST, Amy Icke regularly runs courses and workshops to educate and inspire young women about technology and AI. ![]()
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