Stephen Hayes reviewed Mockingbird by Walter Tevis
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4 stars
A view of the world nearly 500 years into the future, yet many of it's predictions have come true in less than 50 years. On the other hand, some things that the author thought might still be around in that distant future have already all but vanished -- working tape recorders, gramophones with needles and the like. Yet the social changes brought about by AI are mirrored there.
This world of the future is obsessed with privacy, yet there is no privacy. It is obsessed with individualism, yet in the robot-regulated world, everyone is just the same.
A view of the world nearly 500 years into the future, yet many of it's predictions have come true in less than 50 years. On the other hand, some things that the author thought might still be around in that distant future have already all but vanished -- working tape recorders, gramophones with needles and the like. Yet the social changes brought about by AI are mirrored there.
This world of the future is obsessed with privacy, yet there is no privacy. It is obsessed with individualism, yet in the robot-regulated world, everyone is just the same.