How to Survive a Robot Uprising?
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I was most intrigued by Daniel Wilson, a doctor in Robotics (yes that is possible) who wrote tons of articles about robots. He recently wrote a novel which turned into a NYT best seller: “Robopocalypse” He was signing his book later and I got to have a chat with him about robots and his book.
“Robopocalypse” is a science fiction novel that takes place in the near future after a robot uprising where several characters from across the world tell their stories and eventually meet and come together in an attempt to fight back. He had only written 100 pages when his literary agent sent that to some publishing houses and then someone in a publishing house, without him knowing it, actually sent those pages to DreamWorks. So DreamWorks just called him and said ‘we want to buy this. They wanted the story for what ever price, and right away, NOW. So Daniel got an amazing amount of money and only learned after the deal that no one else then Steven Spielberg wanted the story. “Robopocalypse” will on the big screen as a Steven Spielberg-directed DreamWorks movie july 4th 2013.... Only in America.
Daniel wrote the remainder of “Robopocalypse” while production of the movie was already underway. He ended up writing the rest of the book while they were doing their thing at the studio, he told me. Funny. :-)
Needles to say that I bought the (printed! hardcopy!) book and will read it on our way back home.
