This book veered into being more of a way of working out a political argument on paper than a work of fiction per se, and was a little cloyingly clever at times (which, to be fair, is kind of Doctorow's thing). I also don't know whether I want to critique it for being overly idealistic or myself for being too cynical to believe in its utopia. As with all transhumanist fairy tales, I know that I want to believe it too much to really have a rational opinion of it. But it may have convinced me to go to Burning Man?