Well for those of you who have been asking, yes, IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE is the first in a series, and book 2, LEAVE NO TRACE will be published on March 28th 2024. In the Blink of an Eye is a dazzling debut from an exciting voice and asks us what we think it means to be human. In the Blink of an Eye is celebrated film editor Walter Murch's vivid, multifaceted, thought -- provoking essay on film editing. Picked to lead a pilot programme that has her paired with AIDE (Artificially Intelligent Detective Entity) Lock, Kat's instincts come up against Lock's logic. The reader is pulled along with the narrative, eager for Kat and her team to find the clues, ones which are left by the author for the reader to find and follow before the detectives get there.

Initially, she’s really disparaging of AI and thinks that human intuition and gut feeling is something a robot can’t understand or learn. I had serious FOMO when I saw all the proofs and reviews and I had to get myself a copy once it had been published. Murch noticed at some point in his career with Gene Hackman, that where Hackman blinked was often a good place to cut a sequence (just before the blink). Likened by Murch to Frankenstein’s Monster, cuts not only pull pieces together, but what they create is greater than the sum of its parts.Largely due to the ‘astronomical’ amount of possible versions an editor has to deal with, one must always have a plan.

This allows for more of the kind of interactions that happen with the robots in the two predecessors mentioned than would have been the case if Lock had been a totally disembodied program. If you like an original story with great characters and an ending you literally won't expect, this could be the book for you. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Kat is also a mother, with her teenage son on the cusp of relocating to begin university, and as such there are aspects of the cases that she strongly relates to.It’s not one of those completely out of left field resolutions that leaves you feeling cheated, more one that makes me want to read the book again to see if I could have ‘made’ the perpetrator any earlier.

She is tasked with running a new pilot programme which pairs AI’s with humans to solve cold cases of missing people. A pesar del enfoque técnico y profesional que tiene el libro, Walter Murch sabe entretener al lector en todas sus explicaciones. But when the two missing person's cold cases they are reviewing suddenly become active, Lock is the only one who can help Kat when the case gets personal. She lives with her two children in the Midlands, where she is currently writing the third novel in the Kat and Lock series.

In the Blink of an Eye predicts the near future when police officers and their AI counterparts will work hand-in-holographic-hand. Aparte de su conocimiento del montaje y de un sentido artístico audiovisual que podíamos dar por hecho, Murch tiene una sensibilidad literaria y una prosa envidiables. I enjoyed the book and the 5 stars is well-earned, despite the attempt to pretend it isn't science fiction.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. In the Blink of an Eye is a dazzling debut from an exciting new voice and asks us what we think it means to be human . Murch approach is more of the zen type, teaching that editing is more like a dance, and an art, than a science, and how you can learn from that.

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