Every
«Eggers proposes an uncanny world, on the border between the impossible-to-imagine and the already-in-play. Every reader is implicated. We are all members of that passive army willing to trade freedom for convenience. As digital culture blossomed, people wondered if machines could be made to think like people. The more compelling question is the one Eggers poses in The Every: Are people content to become machines?»
Sherry Turkle, author of The Empathy Diaries
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 608
- ISBN
- 9780241993644
- Utgivelsesår
- 2022
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Anmeldelser
«Eggers proposes an uncanny world, on the border between the impossible-to-imagine and the already-in-play. Every reader is implicated. We are all members of that passive army willing to trade freedom for convenience. As digital culture blossomed, people wondered if machines could be made to think like people. The more compelling question is the one Eggers poses in The Every: Are people content to become machines?»
Sherry Turkle, author of The Empathy Diaries
«Hilarious and horrifying and idealistic. An unusual combination in a novel, or in anything else, really, but here the necessary result of a powerful writer taking on much of what matters most to our future»
Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit West
«Sparkles with provocative ideas»
Publishers Weekly
«[This is a] remarkable piece of satire, riven as it is with horribly plausible ideas and horribly good jokes. It's one thing to sound a warning about how we are on a slippery slope to a kind of consumerist fascism where we exchange liberty for convenience. What Eggers does so well is make The Every alluring as well as alarming . . . Eight years after The Circle was published, there is all too little that rings false about its predictions about social media. If the same is true of The Every, we are in even more trouble than we thought we were.»
The Times
«An entertainingly horrifying portrait of a civilisation meekly enslaving itself to the power of the app»
Metro
«Eggers does us a service in underlining the sinister directions tech is taking... In its timing, The Every is right on the cryptocurrency»
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