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WWW Trilogy

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WWW Trilogy	comment	The WWW Trilogy (Wake, Watch, Wonder) is a Science Fiction Trilogy by Canadian Sci-Fi writer Robert J. Sawyer.Caitlin Decter has been blind since birth. Her blindness is caused by a rare disorder of the optic nerve that scrambles the information coming from her eyes, so her brain cannot interpret it. Soon after she and her parents move to Canada to let her father work at a top physics institute, a Japanese researcher from Tokyo, Masayuki Kuroda, proposes to have her participate in an experiment with an implant he has developed, sending the information from one eye to an outside device that will correct it, allowing her to see.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })At first, it looks like the experiment has failed. However, when she starts downloading an update, she begins seeing shapes that don't match the real world and don't go away when her eyes are closed. They come to the conclusion that an error in the device and her brain co-opting her visual center to help her navigate the Internet have combined to allow her to see the World-Wide Web.Meanwhile in China, a massive bird flu outbreak provokes the Chinese government to wipe out the population of a small rural area to prevent its spread. To help cover the atrocity up, they lock down all internet access in their country to the outside. This, however, causes something that they didn't expect. A intelligence that exists in the world-wide web has an increase in development due to the web being separated and then reconstituted, in imitation of how one scientist referenced in-story believes the human brain first evolved consciousness.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Caitlin learns of its existence through her "Websight" and tries to help its growth. It ends up developing to orders of magnitude more advanced than humans and takes the name Webmind.The second and third books of the trilogy deal with the immediate aftermath of Webmind's emergence, including the U.S. government trying to shut him down despite the immense benefits he begins bringing to the human race...starting with the complete elimination of spam.
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WWW Trilogy / int_14d633ed	comment	If I Wanted You Dead...: Peyton Hume gets captured and immediately assumes Webmind wants to kill him. The latter delivers this response word-for-word. It doesn't come off as threatening given Webmind's general benevolence - he's simply pointing out that Hume's worry is misplaced.
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WWW Trilogy / int_2a4222ff	type	Benevolent A.I.
WWW Trilogy / int_2a4222ff	comment	Benevolent A.I.: Webmind, very much so.
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WWW Trilogy / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
WWW Trilogy / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: Caitlin's eventual boyfriend worries about this when the Jerk Jock she originally had a crush on tries to bully him into staying away from her.
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WWW Trilogy / int_2e5e04c0	type	Must Make Amends
WWW Trilogy / int_2e5e04c0	comment	Must Make Amends: Webmind. In the second book he watched a live video of someone killing themselves because at the time he didn't realize that you're supposed to intervene in situations like that. When it's explained to him he vows that there won't be a repeat of the incident on his watch, a promise he does a pretty good job of upholding. The actions of the Evil Twin created by the Chinese cutting themselves off from the rest of the internet again likewise inspires a vow to make amends.
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WWW Trilogy / int_310bb947	type	Whoopi Epiphany Speech
WWW Trilogy / int_310bb947	comment	Whoopi Epiphany Speech: Hobo's speech to the UN.
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WWW Trilogy / int_3318a1cb	type	Distant Finale
WWW Trilogy / int_3318a1cb	comment	Distant Finale: most of the story happens in a matter of days. The ending happens five billion years into the future with humanity having split into many species and colonised known space, and the Sun about to go nova.
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WWW Trilogy / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Generally averted by Webmind's utterly unwavering benevolence, but when he gets split by the Chinese firewall again, the smaller part of his mind sealed within China turns evil immediately, trying to goad people into killing themselves as a form of revenge. It eventually becomes a good argument for letting him be: given that killing him would entail a period of degradation before his destruction, he might well go insane and wreak total havoc in the time he'd have left.
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WWW Trilogy / int_42148628	type	Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory
WWW Trilogy / int_42148628	comment	Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory: Lampshaded In-Universe in Watch. Max thinks the scene in Battle for the Planet of the Apes where the mutants attack the city in a school bus is a metaphor for forced integration, but Shoshana (her girlfriend) thinks she's taking things a bit too far. She thinks use of the bus was simply because the film suffered from an extremely low budget.
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WWW Trilogy / int_471a505f	type	Four Is Death
WWW Trilogy / int_471a505f	comment	Four Is Death: Li got the call about the bird flu epidemic at 4:44 am.
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WWW Trilogy / int_4e3dee88	type	Their First Time
WWW Trilogy / int_4e3dee88	comment	Their First Time: Caitlin and Matt relieve each other of their virginity.
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WWW Trilogy / int_53830d	type	The Internet Is for Porn
WWW Trilogy / int_53830d	comment	The Internet Is for Porn: Caitlin is frustrated about never having seen a dick resp "peeeniz" (she would love to be the dick of her boyfriend the first she sees. When they actually have Their First Time, she takes her eyePod off, though), so she uses Google Images, after she gained sight.
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WWW Trilogy / int_56691220	type	Even the Girls Want Her
WWW Trilogy / int_56691220	comment	Even the Girls Want Her: A gender-inverted zig-zagged version of this trope. Shoshana's girlfriend Max is lesbian like her, but claimed playfully that Hari Rhodes is so good-looking, she would almost want to be straight.
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WWW Trilogy / int_5a365ed2	type	Incompatible Orientation
WWW Trilogy / int_5a365ed2	comment	Incompatible Orientation: Shoshana's coworker Dillon indicated interest in her, who revealed to him that she's lesbian and living together with her girlfriend. Dillon's reaction was OK and Shoshana was delighted by it.
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WWW Trilogy / int_5da3f522	type	Big Brother Is Watching
WWW Trilogy / int_5da3f522	comment	Big Brother Is Watching: Invoked in-universe by several characters who are uncomfortable with Webmind's emergence. Ultimately subverted; Webmind does have the ability to observe anything within range of a camera with even the remotest Internet connection, but only uses this ability to help humans. Further subverted by the fact that Caitlin actually uses the phrase 'Big Brother' as a term of endearment for Webmind.
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WWW Trilogy / int_60e2ec3e	type	Artificial Intelligence
WWW Trilogy / int_60e2ec3e	comment	Artificial Intelligence : Obviously.
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WWW Trilogy / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
WWW Trilogy / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: Peyton Hume has one after Webmind and a group of hackers effectively depose the Communist Chinese government.
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WWW Trilogy / int_673b2da6	type	Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!
WWW Trilogy / int_673b2da6	comment	Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!: Webmind is formed when the Chinese government blocks all internet communications into and out of China, splitting the internet in two and giving it the bicameralism necessary for sentience.
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WWW Trilogy / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
WWW Trilogy / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: A girl on webcam chat threatens to commit suicide and gets goaded by other chatgoers. Webmind witnesses this, but doesn't intervene - from his point of view, interfering would be going against the person's wish. The girl eventually slits her wrists. This ends up being a major source of regret once the obvious is explained to him, and causes him to vow never to let it happen again. Unfortunately later on, when Webmind gets cut in two by the Chinese firewall again, the smaller portion that's sealed within China goes rogue and actively drives people to suicide as a way to exact revenge against humankind.
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WWW Trilogy / int_81c8dd41	type	Deus Est Machina
WWW Trilogy / int_81c8dd41	comment	Deus Est Machina: Played with a bit. On one hand Webmind repeatedly states that he is not god. On the other, not everyone believes that and, well, there's less accurate things to call a being that knows pretty much everything, can be in multiple places at once, watches over the entire human race and actually listens to and answers people's requests. For instance, one of those who believed that Webmind was god begged him to save his wife who was dying of cancer. Webmind told him that he wasn't actually god and then went and analysed and cross-referenced every single piece of information regarding cancer that was available until he'd figured out multiple cures, wrote an extremely long document explaining all the details, posted it online, and sent links to anyone who would be able to use it. In just over six minutes.
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WWW Trilogy / int_863fac26	type	Jerk Jock
WWW Trilogy / int_863fac26	comment	Jerk Jock: Caitlin's first crush in her new school turns out to be this.
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WWW Trilogy / int_8e81e57f	type	Voice with an Internet Connection
WWW Trilogy / int_8e81e57f	comment	Voice with an Internet Connection: Webmind to Caitlin and occasionally other people. Arguably takes the trope to a new level given that he's technically the internet itself.
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WWW Trilogy / int_97550008	type	Turing Test
WWW Trilogy / int_97550008	comment	Turing Test: Subverted; a key part of the second book is Webmind failing the Turing Test. The fact that he is intelligent and sapient is fairly obvious; him failing the Turing Test served to prove that he wasn't just a human with a really fast internet connection.
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WWW Trilogy / int_98a63dc6	type	Time Abyss
WWW Trilogy / int_98a63dc6	comment	Time Abyss: Webmind in the epilogue. He's still on Earth when it's about to be engulfed by the Sun's expansion into a red giant. He also still remembers everything that happened when he first came into being. For bonus points, consider that from Webmind's perspective a day seems like an eternity.
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WWW Trilogy / int_9a08c9a6	type	Intrigued by Humanity
WWW Trilogy / int_9a08c9a6	comment	Intrigued by Humanity: Webmind.
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WWW Trilogy / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
WWW Trilogy / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Webmind, after he watched a girl killing herself online, being egged on by others and not interfering. This happened a second time, after he reintegrated a part of him cut off by the Great China Firewall and discovered the part of him that was cut off actually drove several people to suicide in China.
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WWW Trilogy / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
WWW Trilogy / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Each book is a W-word, a verb, and a One-Word Title: Wake, Watch, Wonder.
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WWW Trilogy / int_b0cbf981	type	Magical Minority Person
WWW Trilogy / int_b0cbf981	comment	Magical Minority Person: Many characters fit this trope to a degree. Caitlin has been blind since birth, but is beautiful, spunky and a genius. Her father, Malcolm, is both autistic and an atheist, and is portrayed as being one of the smartest people in the world of physics. Bashira, Caitlin's best friend, comes from a strict Muslim Pakistani family, whose father defected to Canada to get out of working on nuclear weapons. Hobo, an ape in a language-research project, is half-chimpanzee, half-bonobo, at the same time something of a savant due to his painting, and the main researcher from that project is a lesbian (and also Jewish, judging by the name).
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WWW Trilogy / int_b5788780	comment	Jewish and Nerdy: Caitlin's father (he's an atheist, though).
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WWW Trilogy / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
WWW Trilogy / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: To countless past movies and novels that have dealt with AI, mainly by title-dropping.
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WWW Trilogy / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: The three novels of the trilogy are called, Wake, Watch, and Wonder.
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WWW Trilogy / int_d280a296	type	Teen Genius
WWW Trilogy / int_d280a296	comment	Teen Genius: Caitlin, of course. Possibly her boyfriend as well.
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WWW Trilogy / int_da46a2c0	type	Hollywood Atheist
WWW Trilogy / int_da46a2c0	comment	Hollywood Atheist: Averted by Caitlin and her dad. Both are simply nice, ordinary people.
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WWW Trilogy / int_e1721fd1	type	Antiquated Linguistics
WWW Trilogy / int_e1721fd1	comment	Antiquated Linguistics: Due to having got most of his initial vocabulary from Project Gutenberg and not really knowing how the English language actually works, Webmind's first few messages to Caitlin were in a decidedly archaic form of English. He soon gets the hang of modern colloquial English though.
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WWW Trilogy / int_e90aeea2	type	SciFiGhetto
WWW Trilogy / int_e90aeea2	comment	Sci Fi Ghetto: Invoked and Lampshaded with Caitlin's argument with her English teacher over whether The Handmaid's Tale is science fiction:
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WWW Trilogy / int_f178203a	type	Inspector Javert
WWW Trilogy / int_f178203a	comment	Inspector Javert: Peyton Hume is utterly convinced that Webmind is a threat and responsible for a variety of apparent crimes, and goes to great and increasingly desperate lengths to try to stop him. Not even Webmind curing cancer gets him to reconsider his point of view; he doggedly continues his crusade, until the last acts, when the evidence to Webmind's benevolence finally becomes incontrovertible even for him.
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WWW Trilogy / int_f2dadf81	comment	Evil Twin: When the Chinese put the Great Firewall back up, the portion of Webmind that interacts with the Chinese portion of the Internet becomes this, due to being enraged at humanity over it getting "wounded" in this way.
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