STG's

The Turing Exception - by William Hertling - is the fourth book in the Singularity series, which starts with an AI being created , has an AI war , AIs and humans (mostly) coexisting and prospering , and now goes to a full dystopia. After a really bad incident, AIs are considered a major threat and many are shut down. The others are not happy with how this is going and are ready to go full Skynet... A lot of interesting tech and ideas here. The previous books started with reasonable, minor advances on today's tech but this went almost full singularity on us. Plenty of nanotech doing a whole lot of stuff, multiple existences through mind uploads, and much more. Overall, really good, with a very reasonable and exciting ending that is not the easy way out (minor spoiler: wait, the AIs design a lot of crazy stuff and build it almost instantly with nanotech, but have to request real rockets? WTF?) (on a funny note, searching the title in Amazon gets you C++ and Object-Oriented Nu...

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 t...