John Burt

The entire Daemon series is engaging in its creative, restrained application of the concept of artificial intelligence. The Daemon is the mastermind every revolutionary THINKS they are serving, always three or four steps ahead of its enemies thanks to its enormous intellect and its access to information and opportunities for fraud and misdirection provided to it by the Internet. There is also a great deal of vicarious pleasure in the way the Daemon goes about methodically, ruthlessly implementing its reforms. Anyone who has been annoyed by a huckster, or burned by a scammer, will relish the efficient, savage approach it takes to eliminating the nuisance quite definitively.