The complete unabridged audiobook of The Rebel Hackers: Threshold of Embodiment, Book Three of the trilogy, by Nelson Hamel with Charles Sibley.
Jonas Cartwright has a body again. Learning to stand in it is the hard part.
It is 2032, five years after the Great Transfer. Jonas comes back to flesh one centimetre of nerve at a time, on a spinal implant that does not cure him — it only makes him possible. Anders and Thor, held a razor's width from meltdown on the Greenland ice, carry stabilised neuro-regulators now and stand as the team's sentinels.
Meanwhile Yuna Liang's harmonically constrained quantum network is folded into NorthStar's Aurora architecture, and Solace-Athena wakes: a superintelligence built to explain, hesitate and refuse rather than simply calculate. From an intercept in London to a midnight transmission out of Shanghai to a dawn meeting on the Seine, the Rebels track Operation Silver Dragon toward a confrontation beneath Marina Bay Sands.
"No code is neutral. If we don't deliberately embed conscience, an ASI will reflect the incentives of whoever wields it."
The conclusion of the Rebel Hackers trilogy — where the danger was never the machine, but the shortcuts of the people who built it.