Leni Zumas's writing crackles. Her books are sharp, bleak, funny, and possibly dangerous. When her collection of short stories, Farewell Navigator,...
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This book rocked my socks. I can tell because after I read it I was walking funny for like a day and I was like "That's weird... it feels like there are rocks in my socks," and sure enough, there they were. Mildly alarming to say the least.
For real though, the book is full of amazing (and amazingly messed up) stories of people who are getting screwed by the technological aggregation of data on them. There was one story about a guy who told his doctor he smoked pot once and 20 years later he was denied an increase in his health insurance coverage because of it.
It kills me that people are just ignoring this issue in our society either because of convenience or ignorance, but this is a book that you should be required to read if you want to call yourself an informed citizen (or increasingly, an informed netizen).
- FrankTheNerd
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FrankTheNerd, December 22, 2006
This book rocked my socks. I can tell because after I read it I was walking funny for like a day and I was like "That's weird... it feels like there are rocks in my socks," and sure enough, there they were. Mildly alarming to say the least.For real though, the book is full of amazing (and amazingly messed up) stories of people who are getting screwed by the technological aggregation of data on them. There was one story about a guy who told his doctor he smoked pot once and 20 years later he was denied an increase in his health insurance coverage because of it.
It kills me that people are just ignoring this issue in our society either because of convenience or ignorance, but this is a book that you should be required to read if you want to call yourself an informed citizen (or increasingly, an informed netizen).
- FrankTheNerd
(8 of 11 readers found this comment helpful)