WWW: Wonder
Caitlin Decter discovered Webmind, the vast artificial intelligence that spontaneously emerged from the World Wide Web and changed the world-from curing cancer to easing international tensions. But the Pentagon has declared war on it, recruiting hackers to delete Webmind out of existence...
Caitlin Decter discovered Webmind, the vast artificial intelligence that spontaneously emerged from the World Wide Web and changed the world-from curing cancer to easing international tensions. But the Pentagon has declared war on it, recruiting hackers to delete Webmind out of existence...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781937007362 (1937007367)
Publish date: March 27th 2012
Publisher: Ace
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Science Fiction,
Cultural,
Computer Science,
Computers,
Adult,
Speculative Fiction,
Thriller,
Canada,
Cyberpunk
Series: WWW (#3)
The series definitely makes the listener think. The author has the protagonist's math Professor named Heidegger for a reason. I had no problem with how the author steps through the creation of the self-aware entity into its understanding of its being about being, and is engagement in the world as an...
This has been a great series!! Very enjoyable, readable and gives the reader lots of ideas of where we could end up. Caitlin spends most of the book trying to defend Webmind from the pessimists and those threatened by his appearance. I was relieved by the cutaway from the Caitlin-loses-her-virgin...
I can't help but think that this trilogy would have worked much better as a single novel, suitably edited. I made it through, but found it a slog. Ballantyne did it better.
Brilliant finish to the trilogy
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