Qualityland

Hardcover, 352 pages

English language

Published Jan. 6, 2020 by Grand Central Publishing.

ISBN:
978-1-5387-3296-0
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Like Black Mirror written by Douglas Adams

A very near future, in which social networks literally determine our social standing, online shopping purchases are made automatically based on our profiles, and almost every job has been automated by AI and androids.

Peter Unemployed (surnames are your parent's job at the time of our birth) is a low status second hand scrap dealer, who secretly saves the robots that are sent to him for compacting, and keeps them in his basement, where they watch reruns of Terminator, and the movies of Jennifer Anniston. The Store automatically purchases for him a dolphin-shaped vibrator, based on his supposed algorithmically-derived preferences, but he doesn't want it.

So begins his crusade to return an unwanted purchase, which The Store refuses; they only accept returns of unwanted purchases, and he clearly does want it, as the algorithm can't make mistakes!

Meanwhile, the president of QualityLand is algorithmically forecast to die soon, and the …

Kein Roman, sondern eine Aneinanderreihungen von Ereignissen mit Haltung

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ich erwartete ein Werk dass mit dem Känguru mithalten kann. Das bekam ich leider nicht. Gut wird das Buch leider erst nach dem ersten Viertel, davor ist es doch recht eintönig und z.B. die spöttischen Kommentare, wie sie das Känguru äußern würde, fehlten ersatzlos.

Dafür hielt sich der Autor umso stärker mit Einführung in das Szenario und Erklärungen auf.

Das Ende ist dafür umso besser und man würde gerne noch gleich einen Nachfolger konsumieren.

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