pickA well-written book, but a bit too close to home with so much gaslighting.
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pickA well-written book, but a bit too close to home with so much gaslighting.
#DynamicDs Day 28: It is #Difficult to dream differently in this dystopian universe lest you be perceived as dangerous and subsequently detained by an all-knowing government. Looking forward to reading it.
“Freedom isn‘t a blank slate she wants to tell them. Freedom is teaming and complicated and yes risky and it can only be written in the company of others.”
“By definition outliers aren‘t predictable. Which also means that they‘re not profitable. Soon their actions become aberrant. Their ideas peculiar. Their lives transgressive. They are delinquents.”
pickIs it just me or are these dystopian science fiction stories starting to seem a little too real?! It‘s not much of a leap to see our government detaining those that they believe might commit a crime based on data points they establish and using them for labor or experiments or anything else. Holding them for whatever extraneous reasons they want. It‘s truly terrifying! But you know what also comes of this? Resistance! 🌟🌟🌟🌟
pickThese dystopian novels, paired with the dystopian times upon us thanks to unbelievable actions of the government is starting to be too much for me. The way the facts are manipulated in this book (the main character isn‘t wrongfully imprisoned, she‘s merely “under observation”) is so disturbing and something I can see our world sliding into. The use of technology to predict future behavior, believable. This book is unsettling. More⬇️
A rather sinister news item featured in many UK press publications this week. Scary timing for those of us who have recently read the tagged book.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/08/uk-creating-prediction-tool-to-i...
pickAs all good dystopian fiction should be, this is eerily prescient and portrays a future one can almost see, and certain fully imagine. What was lacking for me is a full exploration of tech firm DreamSaver Inc; we get a chapter or two focussed on one of their developers, but nothing more and this felt a missed opportunity to take the story further. It also had echoes of other dystopian fiction I‘ve read, however overall a great read.
pickThanks to spring break, I got a lot of reading in! These were my favs for March.
