Infinite Detail

Tim Maughan

Synopsis

It's the story of the before and after of a virus that takes down every networks. The before is a dystopia of constant control by a few big tech companies with the accumulation of personal data. The after is a chaotic almost post-apocalyptic world. Salvation comes from a decentralized network.

My take

 It's nice to see stockcroft ( Bristol), a neighborhood that I know for having lived 10 minutes from it, as the center of the revolution. The whole book has a cory-doctorowesque thing to it. The "before" is a bit of a "little brother" world. Then it's good to see that tech is not the problem, but centralizing the power of tech is.  

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