Inter Ice Age 4

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The polar ice caps are melting, and Professor Katsumi has built a computer that can predict human behaviour. The problem is that the computer predicts he will oppose the government's radical plan to ensure humanity's survival — a genetics programme that will reshape what it means to be human. The machine knows his future better than he does, and his future is to resist the very thing that might save the species. Kobo Abe's science fiction novel turns a premise about climate catastrophe into a philosophical trap: what do you do when the machine that sees the future tells you that you are the obstacle? A cold, brilliant novel about the horror of being predicted — and the greater horror of being correct.