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Already an underground sensation, 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. 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. Thousands of autonomous computer programs, or daemons, make our networked world possible, running constantly in the background of our lives,…

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Editions

12 editions · 4 languages
  • Paperback · English · 2010
    Quercus · 448 pages · 9781847249616
  • Hardcover · English
    Dutton Adult · 448 pages · 9780525951117
  • Ebook · English
    Penguin Group USA, Inc. · 640 pages · 9781101007518
  • Paperback · English
    Signet · 632 pages · 9780451228734
  • Audiobook · English
    Penguin Audio · 9780143144441
  • Other · English · 2017
    Penguin Publishing Group · 480 pages · 9781524741891
Human-computer interactionInternational economic integrationComputer programmersFictionThrillerFiction, suspenseProgrammeursRomans, nouvelles