WHAT THE HECK IS CHANGING OUR INFRASTRUCTURE ALL ABOUT?
I read today on a national new’s site that United States’ President Biden is preparing to launch a major initiative to upgrade our failing infrastructure, something I’ve personally touted for the past five years. But…it’s not that I’m opposed to doing exactly that, it’s that I’m uncertain that returning our infrastructures to normal is the way to go about it.
In my recently released Sci-Fu (science-based futuring) novel, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, I explore the result of a massive redesign of national infrastructures including politics, ethics, business, the legal system, education, transportation, environmentalism, health care, romance, eroticism, coming-of-age, gender issues, even the core family structure. As my friend and colleague, the incomparable author, William Maltese, has said, “It’s not always a pleasant picture. In fact, it’s sometimes bordering on the truly shocking. That said … It’s a fascinating read, experienced through the eyes of three protagonists from birth, through adolescence, and into maturity. Their journey is often difficult and often dangerous. Never, though, is it boring.”
So what’s different from what’s being proposed by our and many other contemporary governments? I think the real issue is making the change from “crowd-selling” to “individual-service” infrastructures. “The normal” (“crowd-selling”) is what I believe has allowed COVID-19 to ravage our overpopulated world, and is inviting us to experience, with similar savage, COVID-20, COVID-21 and other future pandemics, perhaps not linearly, but several at once. In THE EDGE OF MADNESS, I portray numerous infrastructure upgrades, all in terms of a fundamental change to individualized service. The greatness of the work lies not only in its entertainment value, but in providing a mirror for readers to see and “test” what a world based on this fundamental shift in infrastructure updates might be like. Try it, you may like it!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859
Soon to be an Audible audiobook read by the incomparable Peter Pollock. Purchased for manga, animation and cinematic treatment by K. Simmons Productions.
In my recently released Sci-Fu (science-based futuring) novel, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, I explore the result of a massive redesign of national infrastructures including politics, ethics, business, the legal system, education, transportation, environmentalism, health care, romance, eroticism, coming-of-age, gender issues, even the core family structure. As my friend and colleague, the incomparable author, William Maltese, has said, “It’s not always a pleasant picture. In fact, it’s sometimes bordering on the truly shocking. That said … It’s a fascinating read, experienced through the eyes of three protagonists from birth, through adolescence, and into maturity. Their journey is often difficult and often dangerous. Never, though, is it boring.”
So what’s different from what’s being proposed by our and many other contemporary governments? I think the real issue is making the change from “crowd-selling” to “individual-service” infrastructures. “The normal” (“crowd-selling”) is what I believe has allowed COVID-19 to ravage our overpopulated world, and is inviting us to experience, with similar savage, COVID-20, COVID-21 and other future pandemics, perhaps not linearly, but several at once. In THE EDGE OF MADNESS, I portray numerous infrastructure upgrades, all in terms of a fundamental change to individualized service. The greatness of the work lies not only in its entertainment value, but in providing a mirror for readers to see and “test” what a world based on this fundamental shift in infrastructure updates might be like. Try it, you may like it!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859
Soon to be an Audible audiobook read by the incomparable Peter Pollock. Purchased for manga, animation and cinematic treatment by K. Simmons Productions.
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