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Bezig met laden... Version Zero (editie 2022)door David Yoon (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Version Zero is a well-written story that hits on a lot of today's social media woes. It drug a little for me in the middle, but the ending had me on the edge of my seat. I think all young readers should read this book and consider their own usage of social media so we don't require a Pilot and Max situation in real life. ( ) This book makes me want to quit the internet. I can picture this as a movie too. Crazy to think that what happened in this book,even though its fiction, could potentially happen. It’s a reflection of how crazy the internet has gotten and how people hide behind the proverbial walls, spouting off whatever they want and are driven by the amount of likes they receive or don’t receive. Scary…. Yoon, David. Version Zero. Putnam, 2021. David Yoon is a graphic designer who has worked in the tech industry. In Version Zero, he uses that experience to inform a tech thriller that suggests we ought to question our whole relationship with Internet technology, especially social media whose covert business is collecting data about its users. His protagonist, Max, works for Wren, a huge social media company whose profits all stem from the data they collect from unwitting users. When he suggests to his bosses that they should be more open about their data collection, Max is fired almost immediately and blackballed by the whole industry. He and a few disaffected pals, one of whom is a former social media genius entrepreneur, decide to “fix the Internet” by outing the corporate practices and hacking into their data collection infrastructure. All the characters have complicated personal and social agendas that give the story complexity, as relationships and personalities need as much repair as the technology. I wish that the villains were as interesting as our group of tech saboteurs, but Version Zero makes a good case against the surveillance society. It is much the same case that Cory Doctorow has been making for years. 4 stars. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"Max, a data whiz at the social media company Wren, has gotten a firsthand glimpse of the dark side of big tech. When he questions what his company does with the data they collect, he's fired...then black-balled across Silicon Valley. With time on his hands and revenge on his mind, Max and his longtime friend (and secretly the love of his life) Akiko, decide to get even by rebooting the internet. After all, in order to fix things, sometimes you have to break them. But when Max and Akiko join forces with a reclusive tech baron, they learn that breaking things can have unintended--and catastrophic--consequences"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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