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Dunno why I remembered "The Quantum Thief" by Hannu Rajaniemi. Basically, you had fine-grained control over what others perceived of you. Your friends can see y
by tuzemec 13d ago
Dunno why I remembered "The Quantum Thief" by Hannu Rajaniemi.
Basically, you had fine-grained control over what others perceived of you.
Your friends can see you completely, while strangers can only see a blur.
It was an amazing book.
- jan_m_savage 13d agoThanks for the book recom. BTW, I will also recommend 'a hero of our time' by Lermontov. In it, you will get an updated view of what the meaning of 'friends' will be. :) EDIT: since this is getting upvotes, I will also mention that Lermontov is a descendant of the Learmonts, who were British folk. Also, the book is small but it's jampacked with a lot of wisdom--street and abstract both-- and presented using a language that shines with poetry, it shines even through translation (Penguin Classics trans. is best).
- TeMPOraL 13d agoMakes me think of a Black Mirror episode where similar technology ends up with unlucky/unwanted people becoming inaudible blurs in perception of everyone. As digital dystopias go, this is one of the worst I've seen; the episode ending with this happening to the protagonist shook me to the core.
- treszkai 13d agouhm, spoiler alert?
- silisili 13d agoThe episode is 12 years old. At some point it must be acceptable to stop coddling anyone who hasn't seen something yet to allow discussion, no?
- linkregister 13d agoI think OP was doing a "hu-mor" there
- Permik 13d agoDon't worry, doesn't actually spoil plot of the episode, it's all spelled out for you pretty clearly at the start.
- kdjdkcneixj 13d agoAnd it’s not even a good episode so, you know… nothing lost here anyways.
- TeMPOraL 13d agoJudging by how many people in this thread seem eager to reinvent the hellhole presented in that episode, it's good enough to recommend as required watching.
- cavoirom 13d agoThere was a Black Mirror episode called White Christmas with similar concept.
- ColinWright 13d agoI know Hannu, and he tells an interesting story about getting his first book published. I should write it up sometime ... in my Copious Free Time ... This comment box is too small to contain the story. * The Quantum Thief * The Fractal Prince * The Causal Angel Actually, most of the story is on his WikiPedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannu_Rajaniemi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannu_Rajaniemi
- shantnutiwari 13d agoThe 1st 2 were great but I didnt like the 3rd one. Its like the author was in a hurry to finish the book and just started killing characters to make his wordcount. The 1st 2 are independent, I recommened people stop after 2nd book