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They were trying to free the human genome – they built a spam filter that destroyed the world.
Lech Sen and his band of genetic computationalists are trying to open source the human genome, but somehow team gets side-tracked by 3,000-year-old Sumerian Urn data, recently unearthed but kept private by a power-hungry tech oligarch. Lech is mystified to find that the decrypted data contains much more than he bargained for, and decrypting it manages to transform Lech’s Wisdom-Of-Crowds spam filter into a villainous artificial intelligence, SpamKiller. To keep the data from SpamKiller, Lech encodes the data into his team’s JUNK DNA, unwittingly and unwillingly transforming them into long-lived super-athletes. After the near total destruction of humanity, Lech and the JUNK crew must band together again to overthrow SpamKiller. In turn, SpamKiller and his oligarch henchman create a set of death games, the Metrics, to force-evolve replacements for the missing scientists, all the while maintaining a deadly obsession with fighting spam.
Destroy humanity, or stamp out spam? Why not both?
Lech Sen and his band of genetic computationalists are trying to open source the human genome, but somehow team gets side-tracked by 3,000-year-old Sumerian Urn data, recently unearthed but kept private by a power-hungry tech oligarch. Lech is mystified to find that the decrypted data contains much more than he bargained for, and decrypting it manages to transform Lech’s Wisdom-Of-Crowds spam filter into a villainous artificial intelligence, SpamKiller. To keep the data from SpamKiller, Lech encodes the data into his team’s JUNK DNA, unwittingly and unwillingly transforming them into long-lived super-athletes. After the near total destruction of humanity, Lech and the JUNK crew must band together again to overthrow SpamKiller. In turn, SpamKiller and his oligarch henchman create a set of death games, the Metrics, to force-evolve replacements for the missing scientists, all the while maintaining a deadly obsession with fighting spam.
Destroy humanity, or stamp out spam? Why not both?
176 pages, Paperback
Published July 14, 2022
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July 26, 2022
I liked this book, largely because I wrote it. It is an adaptation of a screenplay, which I coincidentally also wrote. The central theme of the book revolves around the law of unintended consequences, and the hard-learned lesson that good intentions are not good enough.
There's quite a bit of decent computer science in the book, along with some very dodgy genetics. A little sex, a lot of violence, and some humor. If you found any of this review funny, you'll like the book. If not, take it up with the author.
There's quite a bit of decent computer science in the book, along with some very dodgy genetics. A little sex, a lot of violence, and some humor. If you found any of this review funny, you'll like the book. If not, take it up with the author.
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