Tag: The Circle

• Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Circle by Dave Eggers

  This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Circle by Dave Eggers (2013) The Circle 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 […]

  Shannon Turlington

  December 21, 2019

  Best Books of 2010s

  2010s, Dave Eggers, Dystopia, The Circle

• On privacy…

  SHARING IS CARING. SECRETS ARE LIES. PRIVACY IS THEFT. —The Circle by Dave Eggers One of the ideas explored in Dave Eggers’ novel The Circle is the loss, and even voluntary relinquishing, of privacy in a world where everything is filmed and nothing is ever deleted. Considering the revelations this year about the NSA’s electronic snooping, […]

  Shannon Turlington

  January 3, 2014

  Notebook

  Dave Eggers, David Brin, Facebook, facial recognition, Feed, Google, Information, MT Anderson, Privacy, technologies, The Circle

• 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