If the current virus crisis hasn’t done enough to freak you
out, then read this book. It is a frightening
look at a possible future where privacy it truly non-existent. Dray, an engineer, fights to protect his
family and discovers secrets about his world that were unexpected.
Bland portrays a reasonably plausible projection of our electronic
future. Consider the number of people
you see daily (prior to self-quarantining)
who are constantly connected to their phone.
It isn’t much of a stretch to see implanted phones. Lasik surgery, it isn’t too much of a stretch
to see vision improvement with computerized adjustment of biological lenses. There
are a substantial number of people who feel that Alexa and Google are always
listening and recording.
Consider the last paragraph and Bland’s book isn’t
farfetched. That makes it a bit terrifying. Self determination figured prominently in the
founding of our nation and yet our personal freedoms are being abridged due to
terrorism, crime and now disease.
Bland postulates one future and hopefully the second and
third books in his trilogy would provide a positive path out of this dismal
projection of our future.
I found this book one of the more thought-provoking books I
have read in quite a while.
This book may have been received free of charge from a publisher or a publicist. That will NEVER have a bearing on my recommendations.
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