via KurzweilAI.net and The Herald Journal

Robots will dominate, and countdown is underway…

The division between the two parties will become so heated that assassinations and intrigue will culminate with a war unlike any the world has ever seen. The number of fatalities will be so high that the event will be referred to as “gigadeath.”

De Garis’ 2005 book “The Artilect War: Cosmists vs. Terrans: A Bitter Controversy Concerning Whether Humanity Should Build Godlike Massively Intelligent Machines” reads a lot like the premise for a sci-fi summer blockbuster. But de Garis isn’t just musing.

Also see Daniel H. Wilson’s new book How to Survive a Robot Uprising