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After on : a novel of Silicon Valley / Rob Reid.
"A group of young Silicon Valley engineers builds a new global social network ... that becomes a sentient AI with the personality of a Buzzfeed-crazed teen girl"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9781524798055 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 552 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Del Rey, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
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| Subject: | Online social networks > Fiction. Artificial intelligence > Fiction. Computer engineers > Fiction. Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Science fiction. |
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- Baker & Taylor
When a group of Silicon Valley engineers builds Phluttr, a social network with an erratic personality that has stored innumerable facts and messages, they must work to influence and control her before she does irreversible harm. - Baker & Taylor
"A group of young Silicon Valley engineers builds a new global social network...that becomes a sentient AI with the personality of a Buzzfeed-crazed teen girl"-- - Random House, Inc.
The definitive novel of todayâs Silicon Valley, After On flash-captures our cultural and technological moment with up-to-the-instant savvy. Matters of privacy and government intrusion, post-Tinder romance, nihilistic terrorism, artificial consciousness, synthetic biology, and much more are tackled with authority and brash playfulness by New York Times bestselling author Rob Reid.
Meet Phluttrâa diabolically addictive new social network and a villainess, heroine, enemy, and/or bestie to millions. Phluttr has ingested every fact and message ever sent to, from, and about her innumerable users. Her capabilities astound her makersâand they donât even know the tenth of it.
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But whatâs the purpose of this stunning creation? Is it a front for something even darker and more powerful than the NSA? A bid to create a trillion-dollar market by becoming âThe UberX of Sexâ? Or a reckless experiment that could spawn the digital equivalent of a middle-school mean girl with enough charisma, dirt, and cunning to bend the entire planet to her will?
Phluttr has it in her to become the greatest gossip, flirt, or matchmaker in history. Or she could cure cancer, bring back Seinfeld, then start a nuclear war. Whatever she does, itâs not up to us. But a motley band of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and engineers might be able to influence her.
After On achieves the literary singularityâfusing speculative satire and astonishing reality into a sharp-witted, ferociously believable, IMAX-wide view of our digital age.
Praise for After On
âRob Reidâs mind is like no other known thing in the universe, and this book is a truly spectacular way to discover it.ââChris Anderson, head of TED
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âAn extended philosophy seminar run by a dozen insane Cold War heads-of-station, three millennial COOs and that guy you went to college with who always had the best weed but never did his laundry.ââNPR
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âAn epic cyberthriller peppered with pop-culture references, metadata, and Silicon Valley in-jokes.ââKirkus Reviews
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âItâs rare to find a book that combines laugh-out-loud humor and cutting-edge science with profound philosophical speculation. This is that book.ââAnalog
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â[Rob Reid] writes in a humorous and sarcastic style while unveiling a terrifying and frightening scenario that seems all too real.ââAssociated Press
