Onderdeel van de samenzwering is dichter Robert Gu, een enorme eikel die door de medische wetenschap teruggehaald is uit vergevorderde Alzheimer en die bij zijn zoon in huis woont. Inlichtingendiensten beramen een inbraak bij het laboratorium waar het wordt ontwikkeld. De plot draait om een viraal wapen dat het gedrag van mensen kan sturen. Na de derde poging.ĭit is near future SF die naar cyberpunk neigt, maar dan zonder het zwartgallige aspect. 8 jaar nadat ik begon heb ik het eindelijk, eindelijk uit. With forces around the world converging on San Diego, both the conspiracy and the protest climax in a spectacular moment as unique and satisfying as it is unexpected.Įr zijn van die boeken waar je je echt doorheen moet worstelen, en dit is er zo een. He and his fellow re-trainees feel compelled to join protests against the change. And even Miri, in her attempts to protect her grandfather, may be entangled in the plot.Īs Robert becomes more deeply involved in conspiracy, he is shocked to learn of a radical change planned for the UCSD Geisel Library all the books there, and worldwide, would cease to physically exist. In a world where every computer chip has Homeland Security built-in, this conspiracy is something that baffles even the most sophisticated security analysts, including Robert’s son and daughter-in law, two top people in the U.S. When Robert begins to re-train at Fairmont High, learning with other older people what is second nature to Miri and other teens at school, he unwittingly becomes part of a wide-ranging conspiracy to use technology as a tool for world domination.
But the consensus reality of the digital world is available only if, like his thirteen-year-old granddaughter Miri, you know how to wear your wireless access-through nodes designed into smart clothes-and to see the digital context-through smart contact lenses.
Living with his son’s family, he has no choice but to learn how to cope with a new information age in which the virtual and the real are a seamless continuum, layers of reality built on digital views seen by a single person or millions, depending on your choice. Now he is seventy-five years old, though by a medical miracle he looks much younger, and he’s starting over, for the first time unsure of his poetic gifts. Now, as he regains his faculties through a cure developed during the years of his near-fatal decline, he discovers that the world has changed and so has his place in it. The world that he remembers was much as we know it today. Robert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer's patient.
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