Review of NO SIGNAL by Tehban's Book Club
For the latest and greatest installment of the Tehben Book Club ft. Nelson Rockingham, I tackle the sequel to Proximity by Jem Tugwell: No Signal. The original book ended with some of the pillars of the social and political order being challenged. It will be interesting to see how this story continues the fracturing of what the public has come to trust as the “perfect security”.
To bring you up to speed, our story is set in the not-so-distant future of the UK where a revolutionary technology called iMe has radically changed life as we know it. Imagine all of the capabilities of your phone, mixed with the motion recognition of an Xbox Kinect, interfaced in a way similar to Google Glass (but like, in a cool, totally-not-lame way), combined into a single implant at the base of your neck. Oh and it can track in real time what you eat, the nutritional values of your food, and is Bluetooth synced to everything around you such that only you can unlock your front door when it recognizes you touching it. Really neat, right? Well, it also continuously records where you go and who you come into contact with. And it’s mandatory to have one. Yea, you can see now where there might be some problems here.
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