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William Hertling

Autor(a) de Avogadro Corp

9+ Works 810 Membros 50 Críticas

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Obras por William Hertling

Avogadro Corp (2011) 297 exemplares
The Last Firewall (2013) 182 exemplares
A.I. Apocalypse (2012) 136 exemplares
Kill Process (2016) 113 exemplares
The Turing Exception (2015) 52 exemplares
Kill Switch (2018) 10 exemplares
The Case of the Wilted Broccoli (2013) 10 exemplares

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Baby Shoes: 100 Stories by 100 Authors — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

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Conhecimento Comum

Sexo
male

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Críticas

When I was rereading Daemon by Daniel Suarez, William Hertling’s Avogadro Corp popped up on my recommendation list. AI at work. It seems quaintly old-fashioned now, but Hertling’s gimmick is that a coder puts a routine into his company’s email server instructing it to make itself successful. It quickly takes over the world economy. That is a spoiler, but you probably saw it coming. 3.5 stars.
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Tom-e | 29 outras críticas | Mar 27, 2023 |
Fun read that made a lot more sense after I left education for the private sector working for a large company. The cover gives away the idea that the singularity is happening, and so I chuckled through the first half watching the "mystery" unfold itself.
 
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JoshEnglish | 29 outras críticas | Mar 25, 2022 |
The first thing to know about this book is it is detail heavy with regard to hacking, coding, and internet technology. I don't know how much of the tech in this book is real or embellished but it all looked and felt real to me, and I'm no stranger to some of the technology. However the detail is expressed in a simplified manner and if you can get past that, this book is a compelling read. In fact it's almost three books in one, one part cyber-assassin, one part cat-and-mouse computer espionage thriller, and one part tech startup drama. All three are compelling on their own, and drawing the storylines together was I'm sure no easy feat. That being said, sometimes one storyline would carry on a little too long, getting a bit mired in details. That's a minor criticism, and on the whole I enjoyed this book.… (mais)
 
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lee.gabel | 4 outras críticas | Dec 22, 2021 |
The software/AI plot was interesting and believable.

Sadly, the plot was rendered through intensely annoying characters and culture. Avogadro Corps is transparently Google, and has all the cultural problems that plague the IT industry. So do most of the characters. The main character is whinier than Luke Skywalker, has less moral awareness than a three year old, and has so little sense of self that the prospect of losing his job overwhelms him with existential anxiety. And that's despite the fact that he's got a quite substantial safety net: his wife has a good paying job and enough influence to get him another job in her company. (But don't even get me started on his wife.)

The most unbelievable part of the book is that the main character , a team lead at Google, wouldn't know what social engineering was. That scene could easily have been written in a way that explained social engineering to the reader without that unbelievable gap in the main character's knowledge (and without his wife's giggling ego-stroking him through it).

I'm willing to concede that these characters may be realistic. That doesn't make them any less annoying. I don't want to hang out with these people in my books any more than I do in real life. Ugh.

… (mais)
 
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VictoriaGaile | 29 outras críticas | Oct 16, 2021 |

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Obras
9
Also by
1
Membros
810
Popularidade
#31,510
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Críticas
50
ISBN
24
Línguas
1

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