Amazingly depressing (but not humorless), this is basically a compendium of every nightmare everyone alive in the year 2003 had: genetic engineering gone awry; the internet desensitizing us to extreme porn and sexual exploitation; first-world blindness to third-world suffering; technology enabling any fanatic with a god complex to wield unlimited power; climate change wiping out species and cranking the noonday heat to intolerable levels, while making extreme weather a daily occurrence; a deepening divide between the haves and have-nots, with the former being moved into all-singing, all-dancing corporate campuses; poverty tourism; and high-tech corporate naming trends getting yet more ridiculous. It's a hoot.

Totally engaging, except maybe for the last third, which I felt was a little on-the-nose.