Technologically savvy readers dont need this information, and those unaware of it are unlikely to care or fully understand the authors explanations. In addition, there are times when the author drifts into unnecessary detail. There are a few brief scenes that are a bit amateurish. As someone whose day job is in computer technology, I was intrigued by the authors accuracy and thorough knowledge of the inner workings of corporate networks, the Internet, and computer hacking. Like Crichton, Suarez builds his novel on technology that exists today and which could plausibly be employed as described in the narrative. The authors style is reminiscent of Michael Crichtons.
With Sobols secrets buried along with him, and as new layers of his daemon are unleashed at every turn, its up to an unlikely alliance to decipher his intricate plans and wrest the world from the grasp of a nameless, faceless enemyor learn to live in a society in which we are no longer in control.ĭaemon is one of the better technological thrillers this reviewer has encountered in quite some time. When his obituary is posted online, a previously dormant daemon activates, initiating a chain of events intended to unravel the fabric of our hyper-efficient, interconnected world. But Sobols fans arent the only ones to note his passing. His premature death depressed both gamers and his companys stock price. Matthew Sobol was a legendary computer game designerthe architect behind half-a-dozen popular online games. For the most part, daemons are benign, but the same cant always be said for the people who design them. Thousands of autonomous computer programs, or daemons, make our networked world possible, running constantly in the background of our lives, trafficking e-mail, transferring money, and monitoring power grids. Technology controls almost everything in our modern-day world, from remote entry on our cars to access to our homes, from the flight controls of our airplanes to the movements of the entire world economy. Already an underground sensation, a high-tech thriller for the wireless age that explores the unthinkable consequences of a computer program running without human controla daemondesigned to dismantle society and bring about a new world order.
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