num_pages: 576
description: The definitive novel of todays Silicon Valley After On flash-captures our cultural and technological moment with up-to-the-instant savvy. Matters of privacy and government intrusion post-Tinder romance nihilistic terrorism artificial consciousness synthetic biology and much more are tackled with authority and brash playfulness by New York Times bestselling author Rob Reid.Meet Phluttra diabolically addictive new social network and a villainess heroine enemy and/or bestie to millions. Phluttr has ingested every fact and message ever sent to from and about her innumerable users. Her capabilities astound her makersand they dont even know the tenth of it. But whats the purpose of this stunning creation? Is it a front for something even darker and more powerful than the NSA? A bid to create a trillion-dollar market by becoming The UberX of Sex? Or a reckless experiment that could spawn the digital equivalent of a middle-school mean girl with enough charisma dirt and cunning to bend the entire planet to her will?Phluttr has it in her to become the greatest gossip flirt or matchmaker in history. Or she could cure cancer bring back Seinfeld then start a nuclear war. Whatever she does its not up to us. But a motley band of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs venture capitalists and engineers might be able to influence her.After On achieves the literary singularityfusing speculative satire and astonishing reality into a sharp-witted ferociously believable IMAX-wide view of our digital age.
language: English
title: After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley
publisher: Del Rey