{"id":8115,"date":"2016-03-28T20:21:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T00:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=8115"},"modified":"2016-03-28T20:21:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T00:21:20","slug":"rainbows-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/rainbows-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbows End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;You-Gotta-Believe Me. That is, mind control. Weak, social forms of YGBM drove all human history. For more than a hundred years, the goal of <strong>irresistible<\/strong> persuasion had been a topic of academic study. For thirty years it had been a credible technological goal. And for ten, some version of it had been feasible in well-controlled laboratory settings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rainbows End<\/strong> by Vernor Vinge, published in 2006<\/p>\n<p>Robert Gu is 75 but he&#8217;s been cured of several problems including Alzheimer&#8217;s. He looks like a teenager but he&#8217;s not sure if he can write poetry the way he used to. Juan Orozco is an average high school student who likes playing video games. Then he&#8217;s approached by a mysterious person who has an offer of an affiliance. Juan can make money by finding out about the seniors in his class &#8212; like Robert Gu. Alfred Vaz is trying to save the world, but to do that he has to put a very complex plan into motion. And he needs the help of a powerful individual who calls himself the Rabbit.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about working together, the advance of technology, and 21st century complexities.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the book deals with library books being shredded and digitized. I don&#8217;t mind digitization but the shredding part is horrifying.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to know what the future will be like, read this book.<\/p>\n<p>I previously reviewed Vinge&#8217;s novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/marooned-in-realtime\/\"><strong>Marooned in Realtime<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;You-Gotta-Believe Me. That is, mind control. Weak, social forms of YGBM drove all human history. For more than a hundred years, the goal of irresistible persuasion had been a topic of academic study. For thirty years it had been a credible technological goal. And for ten, some version of it had been feasible in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,28,5,8],"class_list":["post-8115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-novels","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8115"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8118,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8115\/revisions\/8118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}