Books

[dsrtao]

_Robopocalypse_, Peter Wilson

- there is a distinct lack of original ideas
- radio DF doesn't work that way -- you track transmission sources, not receivers
- no mention of automated factories, but they have to exist
- where's the power coming from? Apparently someone invented super-batteries and forgot to tell the author to revolutionize the world.
- (related) you're telling me the entire power and communications infrastructure of the US and Europe was completely automated?

Overall, don't bother unless you're a real fan of end-of-the-world scenarios.

Comments

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

If your receivers use superheterodynes, there are fun things you can do to detect them...hence the existence of radar detector detectors.

Of course, then you can build your radar detector with a radar detector detector detector...and people have.

Heterodyne! Not just a fun word from Girl Genius! ;)

[dsrtao]

They separate half a mile in Afghanistan, then track the receiver in Alaska.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Have the robots made the Earth flat or something?

[dsrtao]

Pave the world,
Make it a flatter place...
For me and for you and the end of the human race

No.