Daemon suarez6/2/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() 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 Sobol's fans aren't the only ones to note his passing. His premature death depressed both gamers and his company's stock price. Matthew Sobol was a legendary computer game designer-the architect behind half-a-dozen popular online games. For the most part, daemons are benign, but the same can't 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. A high-tech thriller for the wireless age that explores the unthinkable consequences of a computer program running without human control-a daemon-designed to dismantle society and bring about a new world order ![]()
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