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Average rating3.4
At the end of the 21st century humanity is co-existing with bots that do all the work. Humans work ‘gigs' where they watch over machines, Amazon Mechanical Turk style. Or they down various pills - some with nanobots, some only chemistry - to enhance their mental or physical abilities. The economy is controlled by the pill-makers - the ‘funders' - who race to develope newer and better enhancements, while most of humanity scrambles to earn a living. Then a seeming human-bot hybrid terrorist group appears on the scene demanding personhood for machines.
A lot of smart-to-scary concepts in play here. Smart materials, reconfigurable apartments, supportive A.I. agents, a tipjar economy of constant surveillance and performance... Sometimes there were even too many ideas happening at once, and sometimes the protagonist's insistence on being the only savior was a bit too much, but all in all this was a great scifi read.