After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (741 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071XTVBGZ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 595 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-10 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
But a motley band of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and engineers might be able to influence her. Matters of privacy and government intrusion, post-Tinder romance, nihilistic terrorism, artificial consciousness, synthetic biology, and much more are tackled with authority and brash playfulness by New York Times best-selling author Rob Reid.Meet Phluttr - a diabolically addictive new social network and a villainess, heroine, enemy, and/or bestie to millions. After On achieves the literary singularity - fusing speculative satire and astonishing reality into a sharp-witted, ferociously believable, IMAX-wide view of our digital age. Phluttr has ingested every fact and message ever sent to, from, and about her innumerable users. But what's the purpose of this stunning creation? Is it a front for something even darker and more powerful than the NSA? A bid to create a trillion-dollar market by becoming "The UberX of Sex"? Or a reckless experiment that could spawn the digital equivalent of a middle-school mean girl with enough charisma, dirt, and cunning to bend the entire planet to her will? Phluttr has it in her