![]() ![]() He adds, by way of example: “In California there’s a movement to get rid of human decision-making” – to dispense with umpires who call balls and strikes in baseball “because sometimes there’s the possibility of error”. ” But there was also what he calls “a catalyst”: “I saw this really widespread change happening, where it seemed to me that nobody ever wanted to make a decision any more.” ![]() There were some ideas there that I couldn’t squeeze into the first book. ![]() She returns in this book as the chief executive of the whole company, from which readers can draw what conclusions they will.)Įggers is admirably, well, transparent, when I ask what sent him back to the themes of that earlier novel: “I had, you know, a few hundred pages of notes that I didn’t put into The Circle. (Mae, readers of the first book will remember, had a potential shot at that. ![]() The book’s protagonist Delaney, rather like Mae in The Circle, starts out as a recruit to the company – but her notion is to destroy the Every from within. A few “trogs” still refuse to share their data, but the drift of society leaves them increasingly ghettoised. The company continues to believe that privacy is theft and it adds to that a growing insistence that human decisions in practically every area of life can and should be outsourced to the firm’s proprietary algorithms. ![]()
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