A.M.I.G.O. BOOK Overview
It’s the close of the 21st century and the world continues to be transformed by self-sustaining robotic infrastructures owned by a handful of billionaire and trillionaire-capitalists known by the less fortunate as “Gods”, leaving most humans unemployed, useless and restive. While each country has its own survival strategy to keep the masses under control, about the only place on earth that has found a real solution to the paradox of robotics, artificial intelligence, and human contribution, is a beef-loving, tango dancing, long-forgotten republic at the southern tip of South America.
The solution is named Amigo, a massive A.I. computer system that helps administer the lives of each person in "The Optimized Republic of Argentina,” charting a course so that all Argentines benefit from the efficiencies of robotic production and Artificial Intelligence, and rewarding human contributions and talent, while ensuring that no one is left behind. No cash. No taxes. No debt. By eliminating the waste of the “invisible hand” and unleashing human creativity, Amigo has transformed Argentina from an economic basket case into one of the wealthiest countries on earth. And the happiest. But the danger of such success has not gone unnoticed. And the threat is only growing, and in unexpected ways.
Amid political intrigue, assassinations, black ops, high tech battles and romance, Amigo itself is acting strangely. Eve Jones, Amigo’s American Hip-Hop loving, ecstasy popping, creator, and mother of Argentina’s President Samuel Alfonsin Jones, sends her beautiful assistant Martina Schwenke to investigate a problem that should not be possible. To get to the truth, Martina must enter the secret virtual reality world that is a metaphor for the Amigo system to find what is going on, before it’s too late. Foreign actors ranging from China, Iran and the United States, to the Vatican and the secretive, re-emergent, Hassassins, involve themselves, covertly taking sides, as Martina and the unassuming programmer and hacker Juan Firenze, face deadly peril, with the future of Amigo and the world itself at stake.
A.M.I.G.O. presents such a realistic and alluring alternative to free market capitalism that it may leave you wondering, “why not?”