With books like this, from german writer Marc Uwe Kling we once again associate science fiction with philosophy, rather than with other aspects of the suggestive fantasy plot. Because the science fiction of this novel deals more with the metaphysical than anything else.
The most glorious dystopian precedents of the CiFi (in this case closer in the plot with the happy world of Huxley) mark that precedent that serves to project into our future the most existential questions as a civilization.
Perhaps at this time, at this time, the AI, the Internet of things and the segmentation of our life according to our IP's, sounds like a more accurate forecast towards that horizon built by algorithms and capable of the most comfortable alienation and inalienable.
Welcome to QualityLand, in the not too distant future. Everything works fine in QualityLand: work, leisure and relationships are optimized using algorithms.
There are curious things, such as that your last name is the job that your father or mother had at the time they conceived you, and to confirm a purchase made in TheShop you have to kiss the Ipad. And the algorithms suggest (and impose) even your possible perfect partner.
However, one of its citizens, Peter Unemployment, knows that something is wrong, at least in his life; It is also one of the few who allow themselves to disagree with the world they live in, and who does not mind losing points (because the system, yes, constantly evaluates you).
If everything in QualityLand is really so perfect, why are there drones that are afraid of flying or combat robots with post-traumatic stress? Why are machines getting more human, but people act like robots?
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