Daemon

I really like this book because it's a thrilling tech story that gets you thinking about how technology might change our world. The book made me realize how powerful and risky AI can be. I love how fast-paced the story is and how it makes you consider issues of control and freedom.

The way the author talks about technology and its effects on people really got me thinking. The book makes you wonder about how society and technology come together, and it's interesting.

I loved the way this book described how our personal will can be transferred to robots and software agents. The book does a great job of showing use cases of artificial intelligence (AI) that are possible in the coming decade.

It explores what self-driving cars can do when commanded as a platoon of soldiers. It also shows how smart software agents can control the physical world by interacting with human individuals and bureaucracies, and it even does a good job of showing the power of spatial computing with agents that “live” in certain places in physical space.

Suarez’s debut novel focuses on an all too real possibility of our future—and the dangers we could face.

Daemon warns of our reliance on computers as he tells a fast-paced story about a massive software program that awakens and initiates a terrible plan no one can decipher. We seem to accept that computers are programmed with our best interest in mind, though few truly know everything hidden in those endless lines of code.

Suarez shows the dangers of that near-blind acceptance. Knowledge is power. In Daemon, this tenant is taken to the extreme, with an artificial intelligence holding all… show more.

There is something about digitized neon worlds that captures a reader’s imagination each time. In Daniel Suarez’ Techno-thriller and Postcyberpunk novel, Daemon, an eponymous operating system is activated to take over multiple socio-political and economic systems. While Daemon is never directly personified in the novel, its digital influence is so majorly interwoven with the novel’s many storylines I can easily consider it an honorary character. The novel’s “government by algorithm” was my inspiration for Algo, the A.I. behind the Neon God’s Algorithm introduced in my Neon Science-Fiction novel. To me, the book reads like a darker, more technologically-elaborate Ready… show more.