The promise and perils of AI; from fears about work and privacy to rivalry between the US and China. A new industrial revolution that will reshape and disrupt our lives, our jobs and our world, and allow the emergence of the surveillance society.

In the land of Iolph, all the people stop aging in their mid-teens and can live for hundreds of years. One resident, Maquia, feels lonely despite the peaceful and idyllic land she lives in. But one day, the Mesarte army invades Iolph, seeking the peoples' blood for their immortality. Maquia manages to escape the destruction and chaos of war, but with no home or people, she becomes a wanderer in a dark forest. She comes across Erial, an infant mortal...

In 1947, an aging Sherlock Holmes returns from a journey to Japan, where, in search of a rare plant with powerful restorative qualities, he has witnessed the devastation of nuclear warfare. Now, in his remote seaside farmhouse, Holmes faces the end of his days, with only the company of his housekeeper and her young son, Roger. Grappling with the diminishing powers of his mind, Holmes comes to rely upon the boy as he revisits the circumstances of the...

The years have worn out Tang Zhijun, the editor-in-chief of the foremost space exploration magazine in China. His entire life is now a paean to a space age long gone. When he hears of a collective UFO sighting in a remote village called Burning Nest, he glimpses a possibility for redemption. Flanked by a cynical staffer, a drunk, and an insomniac groupie, he journeys westward to the Daliang Mountains of Sichuan to face the truth about the universe...

"Arata Kaizaki is a 27-year-old loser. While struggling to get a job, things have not been going well for him. When he meets a member of the ReLife Research Institute, he's offered a mysterious pill that could give him a chance to pull his life together. The catch? He must make it through another year of high school. Is being a teenager again worth a new life or will he end up failing again?"--

Earth, no longer able to sustain life due to the rapid development of human civilization, was abandoned. Leaving Terra behind, mankind set out in search of new planetary systems to inhabit. With this cause in mind a new unified government was formed and dubbed the Superior Domination. Now spread across the cosmos, humanity lives in peace, their lives dictated by Superior Domination's computers. Jomy, a young man fast approaching his fourteenth birthday,...

A middle aged man is getting a divorce from his wife who has broken his cell phone. When he goes to get it fixed the repairman gives him a new phone in which every time he pushes a button he starts a new affair with a different woman.

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