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    "description": "<b>The definitive novel of today&rsquo;s Silicon Valley, <i>Forever On</i> 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 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Rob Reid.</b><br />Meet Phluttr&mdash;a 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, or about her innumerable users. Her capabilities astound her makers&mdash;and they don&rsquo;t even know the tenth of it.<br />But what&rsquo;s 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 &ldquo;The UberX of Sex&rdquo;? 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?<br />Phluttr has it in her to become the greatest gossip, flirt, or matchmaker in history. Or she could cure cancer, bring back <i>Seinfeld,</i> then start a nuclear war. Whatever she does, it&rsquo;s not up to us. But a motley band of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and engineers might be able to influence her.<br /><i>Forever On</i>&#160;achieves the literary singularity&mdash;fusing speculative satire and astonishing reality into a sharp-witted, ferociously believable, IMAX-wide view of our digital age.<br /><b>Advance praise for <i>Forever On</i></b><br />&ldquo;Rob Reid&rsquo;s mind is like no other known thing in the universe, and this is a truly spectacular way to discover it.&rdquo;<b>&mdash;Chris Anderson, head of TED</b><br />&ldquo;Reading <i>Forever On</i> is like attending a master class in nearly every major issue haunting not only the tech industry but society itself.&rdquo;<b>&mdash;John Battelle, co-founder, NewCo, Federated Media, and <i>Wired</i></b><br />&ldquo;The future is already here&mdash;it&rsquo;s just for those who read Reid!&rdquo;<b>&mdash;Steve Jurvetson, venture capitalist, Draper Fisher Jurvetson</b><br />&ldquo;Rob Reid doesn&rsquo;t write science fiction; he writes future history.&#160;<i>Forever On</i>&#160;is the best account I&rsquo;ve read of how superintelligence will arrive and what it will mean for all of us. Hilarious, frightening, believable, and marvelously constructed&mdash;<i>Forever On</i>&#160;has it all.&rdquo;<b>&mdash;Hugh Howey,&#160;<i>New York Times&#160;</i>bestselling author of&#160;<i>Wool</i></b><br />&ldquo;Smart, hilarious, and properly cynical about our connected world. The story unfolds in surprising and fiendish ways, and while you&rsquo;re laughing you&rsquo;ll learn enough to confound a wily MBA, manipulate a board of directors, and maybe even outfox a superintelligence.&rdquo;<b>&mdash;Ken Fisher, founder and editor in chief, <i>Ars Technica</i></b><br />&ldquo;Topics  like AI, neuroscience, quantum computing, and gene splicing are usually  both a blessing and a curse: incredibly fascinating material explained  super-boringly. <i>Forever On </i>manages to be an exception to the rule, weaving all of those topics into a funny, delightful story that&rsquo;s full of surprises.&rdquo;<b>&mdash;Tim Urban, creator, <i>Wait But Why</i></b><br />&ldquo;Rips the lid off Silicon Valley! And reveals what lies beneath.&rdquo;<b>&mdash;Stewart Brand, creator, <i>Whole Earth Catalog</i></b><br />&ldquo;What makes this thriller so spine-tingling is how close it is to the bleeding edge of real AI. This is a mind-blowing glimpse of a future we might actually be building right now.&rdquo;<b>&mdash;Chris Anderson, CEO, 3DR, and former editor in chief, <i>Wired</i></b>",
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