Read Daemon and Freedom, a two part novel by Daniel Suarez to find out where we are heading, these two fast paced novels explore a not too distant future that is monitored by an all seeing AI program.
The idea is not too far fetched as computer code is now self repairing, learns and writes it's own code.
Thousands of autonomous computer programs, or daemons, make our networked world possible, running constantly in the background of our lives such as e-mail, automatically transferring money, and monitoring power grids. Matthew Sobol's death triggers a daemon that connects them all. All the technology in the two novels has been invented and running in the background of our lives right now.
