Daemon

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Synopsis
EXPERIENCE THE NEW WORLD ORDER. It controls almost everything in our modern world, from remote entry on our cars and the flight controls of our airplanes to the movements of the entire world economy. Thousands of simple and autonomous computer programs, or daemons, make our networked world possible, running constantly in the background of our lives. Daemons traffic e-mail. Daemons transfer money. Daemons monitor power grids. These daemons are pervasive and, for the most part, benign. But the same can't always be said for the people who design them. Matthew Sobol was a legendary computer game designer-- the billionaire architect behind half a dozen popular online games. His premature death depressed millions of gamers around the world. But Sobol's fans aren't the only ones to note his passing. When his obituary is posted online, a previously dormant daemon activates, initiating a chain of events that may unravel the fabric of the hyperefficient, interconnected world Sobol left behind. With Sobol's secrets buried along with him, and as new layers of his daemon are unleashed at every turn, it's up to an unlikely alliance to decipher his intricate plans and wrest the world from the grasp of a nameless, faceless enemy--or learn to live in a society in which we are no longer in control.
Copyright:
2009

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
440 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780525951117
Publisher:
Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Daniel Suarez
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Computers and Internet, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
Submitted By:
Dave Russell
Proofread By:
Dave Russell
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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Okay, so there's lots of sci-fi out there about AI. Most of it is pretty lame. It's hard to imagine machines taking over the world. What's worse, if you have any computer knowledge at all, you recognize immediately how wrong, or dated the writer's facts are. This novel is different, because instead of self-aware software, we have evil humans, who use software in new, but all too believable ways to gain control. I recommend this to any lovers of technothrillers, who are tired of stories about computers that have no hard computer science background.