Colossus: Colossus Trilogy Series, Book 1

The President hands off full control of the nation's missiles and other defense protocols to Colossus and makes the announcement to the world that he has ensured peace. But Colossus soon exceeds even Forbin's calculated expectations, learning to think independently of the Colossus Programming Office, processing data over 100 times faster than Forbin and his team had originally anticipated. Forbin is concerned when Colossus asks - asks - to communicate with Guardian. The computer he built shouldn't be able to ask at all.. Colossus is a supercomputer capable of taking in and analyzing data rapidly, allowing it to make real-time decisions about the nation's defense. Charles Forbin has dedicated the last 10 years of his life to the construction of his own supercomputer, Colossus, rejecting romantic and social endeavors in order to create the United States' very first Artificially Intelligent defense system. However, the USSR quickly announces that it too has a supercomputer, Guardian, with capabilities similar to that of Colossus

"The movie was better!" according to Aaron Turner. Ok, so I remember enjoying the movie a few decades ago as a teenager and being that I loved the premise of the book I figured it would be a lot of fun to read the book. Maybe it's my nostalgia talking, but I liked the movie better and I'm pretty sure the movie isn't that great (although it still got good reviews), but I figured like most movies based on books the book would be better and would fill in a lot of backstory and details that can't fit in 2 hours. I was wrong.So the first thing you notice with this book is that the writing isn't that good. It's not horrible, just really awkward and I'm pretty sure it's what would happen if. "Aging Classic" according to F. Moyer. To some, “Colossus” is a classic. To other, “Colossus” is just an old Sci-Fi book (1966). Well, I’m old, too, and so thought it would be interesting to read “Colossus” and see how well it stood the test of time. Written in 1966, it clearly had to be difficult for the author to conceive of our current computer-saturated lives. Still, it’s a bit jarring to have the book talk about artificial intelligence that far outstrips IBM’s chess-playing Deep Blue and IBM’s Watson, and yet have the computer interface simply be teletype machines. The book’s male/female interactions (. A Wonderfully Thought Out Story The (newer) cover on this book really caught my eye.  I picked this up on Kindle when it was 99 cents a while back not realizing that it was an older technothriller.  When I saw that Tantor Audio was going to bring this to life on audio, I had to listen to it.Throughout my reading of this book, I kept thinking to myself "was this really written in the 60's?" There were so many pieces that made this feel like it could have been written in the 80's or early 90's.  It reminded me of Crichton in that way.  He was able to write about things that just became normal technology way before they were popular.  Sure the