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Yes, I agree, and "Anonymous" reminds me a lot of the daemon network. The only thing we don't have is Hari Seldon, er I mean Matthew Sobol. Daniel Suarez is a

• pavel_lishin 15y ago
  Funny that you bring up Hari Seldon - you have to kind of suspend a lot of disbelief to be convinced that someone could basically single-handedly foresee everything that could potentially happen. But I guess that's why it's fiction.
  • cubicle67 15y ago
    except - he knew he couldn't foresee everything, hence the line of similarly trained followers, all of who worked to expand the science - he was wrong anyway. Things happened that he didn't/couldn't have forseen
    • pavel_lishin 15y ago
      I think you're talking about Seldon for this one, and you're definitely right - the Mule was unforseen, and unforseeable, and he did have spiritual successors. I don't think Sobol really did - definitely not in the Daemon novel, anyway, every operative was following the AI's instructions. The darknet became (or at least, was shown to be) more self-sufficient later on, when there was less focus on murdering people and more on building communities. I just didn't think it was particularly realistic to skip from A to B without everything falling apart in between - especially considering that there wasn't anything like psychohistory in Suarez's book to wave your hands around.