The Last Firewall - Book Review

The Last Firewall - by William Hertling - is the third book in the Singularity series - which covers AIs.

I have really liked and reviewed the first two books in the series Avogrado Corp and AI Apocalypse. It actually took me this long to read the third novel because I simply forgot I had it, and it got lost in the large number of unread Kindle book I have. When I was reminded by Amazon suggesting the fourth book, I read it under a day.

The Last Firewall continues the series deeper in the future, after AIs became commonplace and have now replaced humans for most work. Because jobs are so rare and goods produced by AIs are so cheap, people in the US get an stipend. Everyone has an implant. AIs are strictly regulated in how much processing they can have and a social index has been created to judge them.

But now humans are being killed through their implants, and a girl with a unique implant is discovering her powers...

Really liked this one. The tech is way more fictional than in the previous books, with the implants and flying cars and hovercrafts, but I still liked it.

Recommended.

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