What I loved about Wake, the first book in the WWW trilogy, was the way Sawyer lifted the reader up, along with the characters, through the process of emerging digital consciousness. The second volume is a real nail-biter as we anxiously wait to see how the world will respond to the birth of an AI that by its very nature monitors everything we do online. For the last year, I've been looking forward to reading the conclusion. As compulsively readable as the first two books, Wonder ends the WWW trilogy on a optimistic but frustratingly shallow note. As Webmind notes, there is a dearth of sci-fi that regards AIs in an optimistic light, and I really appreciate Sawyer's take here. That said, Sawyer is awfully liberal with projecting the values of the WIRED demographic onto society at large (and how ballsy he is, scripting a full John Stewart interview while using composites or anonymity elsewhere!). Also, wheres the previous two books dealt more with objective science & tech, Wonder's primary focus is ethics; while I might agree with much of what Sawyer's saying, the pedagogy is a little heavy-handed, especially when filtered through Hobo. Taken as a whole, the WWW trilogy is a wonderful read and Webmind a marvelous addition to the catelog of great sci-fi characters, even if he left me feeling disappointed.