I highly recommend two visionary thrillers by Daniel Suarez, "Daemon" and "Freedom (TM)".
There is an excellent interview with the author, done by the spokesperson of the german hacker group "Chaos Computer Club". That interview is very long, but i learned more from it than from two years of reading newspapers:
http://www.faz.net/artikel/C31013/english-version-understanding-the-daemon-30335650.html
Daniel Suarez books use today's world as a background for a multi-faceted story that centers around the heritage of a computer genius, who uses relatively dumb (also called „narrow“) artificial intelligence systems derived from the „learning“ algorithms who control characters in computer games to completely change the world.
There is an excellent interview with the author, done by the spokesperson of the german hacker group "Chaos Computer Club". That interview is very long, but i learned more from it than from two years of reading newspapers:
http://www.faz.net/artikel/C31013/english-version-understanding-the-daemon-30335650.html