In fact his scenario is now being seriously considered by the intelligence and security agencies. Suarez, an information technology and security consultant in real life, makes this scenario entirely plausible even to a technology booster like myself. Here the ghostly bot upends the world by using technological blackmail to take control of more everyday infrastructural systems. It’s a techno-thriller more informed than a Tom Clancy novel, more plausible than The Matrix, more graphic than War Games, and more thought-provoking than Neuromancer - yet it introduces a science fiction future new to all of them. Sort of a digital Armageddon, only worse. Daniel Suarez does that with Daemon, a fasted-paced thriller about a world in which a virtual bot takes over. Every once in a while a science fiction book unleashes a vivid, important alternative vision of the future that has not been fleshed out before.
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