Tag: Near-future

• Thoughts on The Circle…

  The last book I finished reading in 2013 was The Circle by Dave Eggers. The title refers to a fictional company that is quite obviously an amalgam of Google and Facebook. The book is a dystopian view of a near-future, a nightmarish outcome of current trends like living our lives via social networks, and the resulting…

  Shannon Turlington

  January 1, 2014

  Reading

  Dave Eggers, Facebook, Fictional company, Google, Near-future, Reading, Social networks, The Circle, Thoughts, Unintended consequences