“A parable about the perils of life in a digital age in which our
personal data is increasingly collected, sifted and monetized, an age of
surveillance and Big Data, in which privacy is obsolete, and Maoist
collectivism is the order of the day. Using his fluent prose and
instinctive storytelling gifts, Mr. Eggers does a nimble, and sometimes
very funny, job of sending up technophiles’ naïveté, self-interest and
misguided idealism. As the artist and computer scientist Jaron Lanier
has done in several groundbreaking nonfiction books, Mr. Eggers reminds
us how digital utopianism can lead to the datafication of our daily
lives, how a belief in the wisdom of the crowd can lead to mob rule, how
the embrace of ‘the hive mind’ can lead to a diminution of the
individual. The adventures of Mr. Eggers’s heroine, Mae Holland, an
ambitious new hire at the company, provide an object lesson in the
dangers of drinking the Silicon Valley Kool-Aid and becoming a full-time
digital ninja . . . Never less than entertaining . . . Eggers is such
an engaging, tactile writer that the reader happily follows him wherever
he’s going . . . A fun and inventive read.”
—Michiko Kakutani,
The New York Times (Source: Amazon).
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