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Nasim is a young computer scientist, hoping to work on the Human Connectome Project: a plan to map every neural connection in the human brain. But funding for the project is cancelled, and Nasim ends up devoting her career to Zendegi, a computerised virtual world used by millions of people. Fifteen years later, a revived Connectome Project has published a map of the brain. Zendegi is facing fierce competition from its rivals, and Nasim decides to exploit the map to fill the virtual world with better Proxies: the bit-players that bring its crowd scenes to life.
As controversy rages over the nature and rights of the Proxies, a friend with terminal cancer begs Nasim to make a Proxy of him, so some part of him will survive to help raise his orphaned son. But Zendegi is about to become a battlefield ...
ZENDEGI
En Iran, Martin Seymour suit la révolution qui libere le pays du joug religieux. Dans le meme temps, une scientifique installée aux Etats Unis travaille sur un projet visant a sauvegarder l'activité cérébrale sur informatique.
Les progrès technologiques aboutissent bientôt et provoquent des problemes politiques... Ce roman aborde de facon lucide l'avenir de l'univers du virtuel toujours plus performant et de son influence sur l'humanité.