The Last Firewall

Name: The Last Firewall
Rating: 4.443636417388916 (275 reviews)

William Hertling

Apr 2014 · SINGULARITY Book 3 · William Hertling

4.4

275 reviews

Ebook

322

Pages

Eligible

About this ebook

In the year 2035, robots, artificial intelligences, and neural implants have become commonplace. The Institute for Ethics keeps the peace, using social reputation to ensure that robots and humans don't harm society or each other. But a powerful AI named Adam has found a way around the restrictions.

Catherine Matthews, nineteen years old, has a unique gift: the ability to manipulate the net with her neural implant. Yanked out of her perfectly ordinary life, Catherine becomes the last firewall standing between Adam and his quest for world domination.

PRAISE FOR THE LAST FIREWALL

“Awesome near-term science fiction.” – Brad Feld, Foundry Group managing director

“An insightful and adrenaline-inducing tale of what humanity could become and the machines we could spawn.” – Ben Huh, CEO of Cheezburger

“A fun read and tantalizing study of the future of technology: both inviting and alarming.” – Harper Reed, former CTO of Obama for America, Threadless

"A fascinating and prescient take on what the world will look like once computers become smarter than people. Highly recommended." – Mat Ellis, Founder & CEO Cloudability

“A phenomenal ride through a post-scarcity world where humans are caught between rogue AIs. If you like having your mind blown, read this book!” – Gene Kim, author of The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

Ratings and reviews

4.4

275 reviews

Andrew Kormanik

September 8, 2017

A solid Artificial Intelligence future forward tale that moves along very well. The groundings (for the most part) are both believable and possible while still giving homage to Asimov, The Matrix and beyond. A strong female character and largely likable supporting cast doesn't hurt either. It's more SyFy than Sci-Fi but enjoyable all the same. I'm giving it four stars as a stand alone story as I haven't read the first two books in the series and the character development here seems a bit lacking. That said it's a very good book that I felt was more than worth my time reading.

2 people found this review helpful

Chuck Dickson

December 24, 2016

This could happen in the next couple of years if Google, Apple and Microsoft have anything to say.. A fun read and an interesting idea.. I like the main character.. Cat should re-appear in another story down the road..

A Google user

August 17, 2016

I could really set this as a movie. Enjoyable story, lots of dark tech, not too far in the future, fighting and explosions would be a very cool sci-fi flick

1 person found this review helpful

About the author

William Hertling is the author of the award-winning novels Avogadro Corp: The Singularity is Closer than it Appears, A.I. Apocalypse, and The Last Firewall. These near-term science-fiction novels explore the emergence of artificial intelligence, coexistence of humans and smart machines, and the impact of social reputation, technological unemployment, and other near-future issues. His novels have been called "frighteningly plausible," "tremendous," and "must read."

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