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Did anyone read Daniel Suarez's Kill Decision?

These are the final days of mankind. Not in an apocalyptic sense but in the sense of the end of our reign as the supreme creatures on this planet. Our overlords will be creatures we created, but it won't be robots or Skynet, it'll be virtual entities like corporations, governments and other faceless entities that you can't kill with a shotgun...

Somebody's a big Daemon fan.

Do you think Google Glass is designed to co-opt or enable the Darknet?

IID predicts for 2013 that criminals will leverage networked healthcare devices to carry out murders. My counter-theory is, that the first murder probably has already occurred; we and the police just didn't notice it. So 2013 may be the year the first murder via Internet device is proven.

During a BKA (German version of the FBI) conference, i made a remark that got me nationwide media attention in 2000: "In the Internet you'll find anything but murder." I wish i could say this with the same conviction today as i did back then (http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/BKA-hat-Muehe-mit-der-Internet-Kriminalitaet-16354.html).

I think those happy days Daniel Suarez envisioned have already arrived.

Augmented reality HUD glasses combined with a few other devices for analyzing the environment around you and then connected to any massive and fast database would yield some interesting things.

Read Daemon and Freedom by Daniel Suarez for some of the best use of this technology I have seen in recent fiction. Noting, of course, that Google was credited on the project (along with others)...

This page also discusses the technology used in the books.

This page and this page are examples of the sort of dialogue ensuing from these books. Everyone I have suggested them to is now dreaming of life in D-Space. ;)

What is amazing is that he wrote the first book in 2004 and saw so much of this coming... It reminds me of Ender's Game and its predictions of the common use of tablets, web forums, anytime/anywhere connectivity, adaptive learning systems, etc... even though it was written in the 80s.

The more our world leans to the universe in Daniel Suarez' fiction, the more I feel a delightful mix of elation, fear, uncertainty and excitement.

It's the daemon!

http://thedaemon.com/

Excellent book by the way. :)

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http://thedaemon.com/daemonsynopsis.html

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Gaa... auto-correct (or auto-incorrect) created a typo: that is Daemon, and Freedom....

Check out Daemon by Daniel Suarez for a fantastic fictional story using current feasible technology, the focus being on an augmented reality network. http://thedaemon.com/

With all that fear mongering in the article, not one mention of botnets. I get that the subject is seemingly non-malicious algorithms ("taking over"), but still, it seems like the malicious ones would be a more immediate threat.

And yes -- "Daemon", and its sequel, "Freedom TM" are great books that every slashdotter should read.

Daemon would be even better than Snow Crash. Sure, it's not technically Cyber Punk, but it has all of the elements and is much more up-to-date and terrifying.

Besides, The Delivinator won't work any more because the pizza delivery scene dropped the '30 minutes or free' thing for exactly the reasons that it was so sensational in Snow Crash. That is, pizza drivers who were afraid they'd have to pay for a late pizza would drive like crazy and occasionally get people killed.

I read "The Daemon" and "Freedom" ( http://thedaemon.com/ ) in one night each. They give me the same sinking feeling of doom I had back when I first realized how insecure computers were. And they're where I first heard about isobutanol being used as a biofuel.

I hope this is The Daemon spreading. :)

I find the way they handled the "spam problem" in the fictional book Daemon quite perfect: "All spammers will die."

It's simple, straightforward, and is impossible to stop as it [the Daemon] operates outside the law. The first time the scenario is presented, four people are shot to death and that message is left amid the carnage. That happens a few dozen times over worldwide and you start to see a pattern even spammers will recognize...

Moral relativity aside, from a certain standpoint that tactic might actually work; there is nothing right now that scares spammers. Being found requires a significant amount of resources: tracing down the network, identifying a single point of control (if there is one,) identifying the person(s) attached to that system, etc. Botnets make the problem exponentially harder. Yet, we still can't really do anything about it and we have to dedicate entire careers to the act of reducing spam. There is something fundamentally wrong with that, I think.

I agree. Right now I'm training an army of American hackers that are going to roll over China. Check out this video of my protege at work. That madd h4xx iz a freebie for you, the more advanced stuff (like photoshopping a cat's head onto a dog's body) will cost ya. USA #1 baby.

While you are at it, you should try to implement The Daemon. ;-)

Valtor

PS: Great book by the way.