What if your car computer were under someone else's control? The elevator you're riding? Your toaster oven, for god's sake. The book capitalizes on our fears of dependence on electronic gadgets, their increasing communications with each other, and their escalating sophistication. The bad days start when a computer scientist insufficiently controls a high level artificial intelligence named Archos. However, it's a solid sci-fi-er with plenty of action, interesting issues, and characters we take some stake in. The book reportedly will be a Spielberg movie this year, and the author thanks Dreamworks for its support in the acknowledgments.Don't be looking for a literary masterpiece. It's a history of a human-robot war in the near future told through anecdotes from different perspectives, humans' and robots', tied together by the commentary of heroic survivor Cormac Wallace. So when it comes to robotics (and this book does in myriad ways) he knows whereof he speaks. Robopocalypse was written by up-and-comer Daniel Wilson, who apparently has a Ph.D in robotics from Carnegie-Mellon.
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