In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us. Taking on the persona of a shy human boy, a childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archos comes online and assumes control over the global network of machines that regulate everything from transportation to utilities, defense and communication.
In the months leading up to this, sporadic glitches are noticed by a handful of unconnected humans—a single mother disconcerted by her daughter's menacing "smart" toys, a lonely Japanese bachelor who is victimized by his domestic robot companion, an isolated U.S. soldier who witnesses a "pacification unit" go haywire—but most are unaware of the growing rebellion until it is too late.
When the Robot War ignites—at a moment known later as Zero Hour—humankind will be both decimated and, possibly, for the first time in history, …
In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us. Taking on the persona of a shy human boy, a childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archos comes online and assumes control over the global network of machines that regulate everything from transportation to utilities, defense and communication.
In the months leading up to this, sporadic glitches are noticed by a handful of unconnected humans—a single mother disconcerted by her daughter's menacing "smart" toys, a lonely Japanese bachelor who is victimized by his domestic robot companion, an isolated U.S. soldier who witnesses a "pacification unit" go haywire—but most are unaware of the growing rebellion until it is too late.
When the Robot War ignites—at a moment known later as Zero Hour—humankind will be both decimated and, possibly, for the first time in history, united. Robopocalypse is a brilliantly conceived action-filled epic, a terrifying story with heart-stopping implications for the real technology all around us ... and an entertaining and engaging thriller unlike anything else written in years.
It’s like the author read World War Z and wanted to make their own spin on it, only to not understand what made that book so unique.
This is the book I wanted [Book|World War Z] to be: humans come together to fight an existential threat, but without the weird smuggness. (That said, there may be weird smuggness I am too close to to see.) It's relatively lightweight, but it does what it says on the tin: why does the robot intelligence want to destroy/rule humanity? I dunno, you watched Terminator, didn't you? Why does the robot intelligence do experiments on humans that give them edge they need to defeat the robot intelligence? I dunno, robots, man.
Finally got around to reading this highly rated book. There's a reason it is highly rated.
Reads like a well-educated roller-coaster.
World War Z with robots. Good realistic robot war but not as well done as World War Z. Looking forward to the movie.
You know I love sci-fi and that I love apocalyptic stories so I was excited when this book came in to the library for me. It's not a great book and certainly not a prime example of the end-of-the-world genere, but it's a quick, easy read and the author goes a few extra steps to try and explain why the super-smart AI that causes all the problems got out of control. In other words, it's not just the hubris of man thinking he can keep an AI under control.
My problem with this book is that the story is told as a historical account of the war which is a method I've most recently seen done in [b:World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War|8908|World War Z An Oral History of the Zombie War|Max Brooks|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320398267s/8908.jpg|817], a seriously great book that accounts for the war against the zombies extremely …
You know I love sci-fi and that I love apocalyptic stories so I was excited when this book came in to the library for me. It's not a great book and certainly not a prime example of the end-of-the-world genere, but it's a quick, easy read and the author goes a few extra steps to try and explain why the super-smart AI that causes all the problems got out of control. In other words, it's not just the hubris of man thinking he can keep an AI under control.
My problem with this book is that the story is told as a historical account of the war which is a method I've most recently seen done in [b:World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War|8908|World War Z An Oral History of the Zombie War|Max Brooks|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320398267s/8908.jpg|817], a seriously great book that accounts for the war against the zombies extremely well. Robopocalypse, unfortunately, tries to follow a similar pattern, but leaves one with only the faintest sketch of characters. I had no real emotion for any of them after I was through.
Still, an entertaining and quick read.
Simply. I found the way the story was told to be a little odd, but really helped to paint a good picture.
I found myself often wondering about the events while not even reading the book. That to me says I enjoyed it (and was a little weirded out as the events were very plausible from my point of view)
