I had high expectations for this book but was heavily let down. What wants to be a modern 1984 / Brave New World mashup is just a description of a world like ours, where social media continues to dominate everyone's live.
So there I was waiting for the big thing to happen, the "visionary story telling" that was promised by this book. And then: Nothing. A mere continuation of what all of us can imagine social media to be misused for.
Yes, scary if you think of it. But surprising, new, revolutionary? No way.
Maybe I am too used to this world we live in already and just didn't get the greatness of this book. But any comparison of this book with 1984 or Brave New World falls utterly short of the actual vision and storytelling that Orwell and Huxley showed in their works.
I had high expectations for this book but was heavily let down. What wants to be a modern 1984 / Brave New World mashup is just a description of a world like ours, where social media continues to dominate everyone's live.
So there I was waiting for the big thing to happen, the "visionary story telling" that was promised by this book. And then: Nothing. A mere continuation of what all of us can imagine social media to be misused for.
Yes, scary if you think of it. But surprising, new, revolutionary? No way.
Maybe I am too used to this world we live in already and just didn't get the greatness of this book. But any comparison of this book with 1984 or Brave New World falls utterly short of the actual vision and storytelling that Orwell and Huxley showed in their works.