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PLENZES - Augmented Reality Augmented Insanity
The Company almost owns your very soul it seems as the drones watch your every move, while you struggle to keep your family’s lights and water on, meanwhile watching the price of the power rise bill to bill. It’s a dark world only 10 years in the future. This is the world Stuart Pauls sees predicted by his machines, sees in his PLENZES.
Stuart’s machines tell him he is the programmer with the ultimate solution that can stave off this bleak decade only he can imagine. As 2014 comes to an end, Stuart is locked in a race with the big five of computing, struggling to be the one to deliver the first augmented reality contact lens.
He begins to fold under the pressure, the endless coding and his never ending failures as the lenses-dubbed PLENZES-begin to take shape and functionality. Stuart slowly succumbs to the paranoia, desperation and maybe a little too much time alone with his software, his machines and his wife.
Soon, Googling for information is to be a thing of the past. Much like books and email, Google will fade, a thing only old people still use. Your PLENZES tell you what you need to know before you need to know it. Or so Stuart’s machines tell him.
The PLENZES’ augmented reality is a live, direct yet indirect, view of your now virtual environment. Your PLENZES provide you with real time alerts to danger, fun, sex, excitement, breaking information your career can’t do without and for Stuart and his wife at times, it’s too good to be true.
The years go by and Stuart and his wife become less and less a part of this world and more and more a part of the PLENZE network. They both begin to wonder; are the PLENZES the way to freedom in the dystopian future his software predicts? Or is Stuart being manipulated by an outside force and the cause of all this to come?
PLENZES – Augmented Reality Augmented Insanity is a novella about our fascination with technology, our dependence on answers provided by machines, the terror and the hope that comes in a unique look into a place not too far from this world, from this time and from Stuart Pauls.
Stuart’s machines tell him he is the programmer with the ultimate solution that can stave off this bleak decade only he can imagine. As 2014 comes to an end, Stuart is locked in a race with the big five of computing, struggling to be the one to deliver the first augmented reality contact lens.
He begins to fold under the pressure, the endless coding and his never ending failures as the lenses-dubbed PLENZES-begin to take shape and functionality. Stuart slowly succumbs to the paranoia, desperation and maybe a little too much time alone with his software, his machines and his wife.
Soon, Googling for information is to be a thing of the past. Much like books and email, Google will fade, a thing only old people still use. Your PLENZES tell you what you need to know before you need to know it. Or so Stuart’s machines tell him.
The PLENZES’ augmented reality is a live, direct yet indirect, view of your now virtual environment. Your PLENZES provide you with real time alerts to danger, fun, sex, excitement, breaking information your career can’t do without and for Stuart and his wife at times, it’s too good to be true.
The years go by and Stuart and his wife become less and less a part of this world and more and more a part of the PLENZE network. They both begin to wonder; are the PLENZES the way to freedom in the dystopian future his software predicts? Or is Stuart being manipulated by an outside force and the cause of all this to come?
PLENZES – Augmented Reality Augmented Insanity is a novella about our fascination with technology, our dependence on answers provided by machines, the terror and the hope that comes in a unique look into a place not too far from this world, from this time and from Stuart Pauls.
52 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 29, 2012
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About the author
Chris Lang
2 books9 followersChris Lang was one of the first to write a digital book in 1999 and since has written PLENZES - Augmented Reality Augmented Insanity in 2012, edition 2 in 2014 and TOM - Dreams Of Horror in January, of 2014.
Born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1963, to a working class family in a very different world than the one we live in now.
Chris Lang has been a musician, a cook and then a chef and a restaurateur. Having owned the corner store, he has also watched the corner store disappear into today's corporate ruled world.
Chris originally built his reputation initially as an expert on social networking and social bookmarking in long before Twitter or Facebook became household names. In 2008 Jack Humphrey named Chris Lang the "Nostradamus of Google" for his uncanny ability to predict Google's future moves.
We hope Chris's passion for all things Internet shines through in "PLENZES"
You can learn more about Chris Lang's vision of many futures here:
http://Plenzes.com
Chris Lang and Margie D. Casados currently make their home together in Denver, Colorado...
Born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1963, to a working class family in a very different world than the one we live in now.
Chris Lang has been a musician, a cook and then a chef and a restaurateur. Having owned the corner store, he has also watched the corner store disappear into today's corporate ruled world.
Chris originally built his reputation initially as an expert on social networking and social bookmarking in long before Twitter or Facebook became household names. In 2008 Jack Humphrey named Chris Lang the "Nostradamus of Google" for his uncanny ability to predict Google's future moves.
We hope Chris's passion for all things Internet shines through in "PLENZES"
You can learn more about Chris Lang's vision of many futures here:
http://Plenzes.com
Chris Lang and Margie D. Casados currently make their home together in Denver, Colorado...
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I'm left... confused. I don't know how to feel about this book, honestly I don't. It's not that I didn't like it.. i just, I don't know.
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