Version Zero

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Hardcover, 368 pages

Published May 25, 2021 by G.P. Putnam’s Sons.

ISBN:
978-0-593-19035-7
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3 stars (1 review)

From the brilliant mind of New York Times bestselling author David Yoon comes a lightning-fast and scorchingly observant thriller about how we can save ourselves from the very real perils of a virtual world.

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.

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3 stars

I had to work at suspension of disbelief for a lot of details in hopes that the little oversimplifications would ultimately serve bigger truths. I'd say it usually gets there, asks big questions, and tells an engaging story on the way.

I couldn't resist trying the little javascript program in the chapter headers, but was disappointed to find it's buggy. If the puzzle is debugging, I do too much of that already. It clearly won't do anything but print some pattern of # characters. If it ran without errors I might be tempted to see if it can be modified to decode some underlying message.

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