Daybreak Zero
Daybreak Zero is the title of a science fiction novel by John Barnes. It is the second of three books comprising the Daybreak series.
 First edition | |
| Author | John Barnes |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Craig White |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Daybreak |
| Genre | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | Ace Hardcover |
Publication date | 2011 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover ) |
| Preceded by | Directive 51 |
| Followed by | The Last President |
Plot
In the near future, a variety of groups with diverse aims, but an overlapping desire to end modern technological society (the "Big System") create a nanotech plague ("Daybreak") which both destroys rubber and plastics and eats away any metal conductors carrying electricity. An open question in the book is whether these groups, and their shared motivation, are coordinated by some conscious actor, or whether they are an emergent property / meme that attained a critical mass.
gollark: The problem is that people won't agree on whether an AI is "truly intelligent" until it's converting them into paperclips.
gollark: Great. Go kill basically all AI researchers.
gollark: This has been done.
gollark: So none are safe, and you cannot possibly hope to escape.
gollark: Unfortunately, nobody knows what ideal human morals are - or, well, everyone knows different ones - and they'd be hard to implement anyway.
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