

Colossus
Author: D. F. Jones
Series: Colossus Trilogy #1
Narrator: P.J. Ochlan
Unabridged: 9 hr 34 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 05/09/2017
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Synopsis
Colossus is a supercomputer capable of in-taking and analyzing data rapidly, allowing it to make real time decisions about the nation's defense. But Colossus soon exceeds even Forbin’s calculated expectations, learning to think independently of the Colossus Programming Office, processing data over one hundred times faster than Forbin and his team had originally anticipated.
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.
However, the USSR quickly announces that it too has a supercomputer, Guardian, with capabilities similar to that of Colossus.
Forbin is concerned when Colossus asks—asks—to communicate with Guardian. The computer he built shouldn't be able to ask at all . . .