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Robopocalypse (Robopocalypse, Bk 1) (Audio CD) (Unabridged)
Robopocalypse - Robopocalypse, Bk 1 - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:Daniel H. Wilson, Mike Chamberlain (Narrator) They are in your house. They are in your car. They are in the skies. Now they're coming for you. — In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us. Taking on the persona of a shy human boy, a childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Arc... more »hos comes online and assumes control over the global network of machines that regulate everything from transportation to utilities, defense and communication.
In the months leading up to this, sporadic glitches are noticed by a handful of unconnected humans -- a single mother disconcerted by her daughter's menacing 'smart' toys, a lonely Japanese bachelor who is victimized by his domestic robot companion, an isolated U.S. soldier who witnesses a 'pacification unit' go haywire -- but most are unaware of the growing rebellion until it is too late.
When the Robot War ignites -- at a moment known later as Zero Hour -- humankind will be both decimated and, possibly, for the first time in history, united.
Set in a future only a few weeks away, the world is still our world, where advancements in silicon-chip technology and artificial intelligence have given us rudimentary android laborers and cars that can get around without human drivers.
Unabridged: 10 Compact Discs, Running Time: 12.5 hours, Narrator: Mike Chamberlain.« less