The advance of technology continues relentlessly. Access to information expands, with near limitless data at the fingertips of everyone. Control over what is private becomes increasingly difficult. Nothing can be kept hidden from those with the knowledge, power or wealth to access it. The accountability of those with this access becomes more and more tenuous as power drifts away from the public and their elected representatives, into the hands of distant centralized bodies who answer to no one. Taylor, Alice, Dave and Steph, afraid of the direction of events, try to make their voices heard, but is it all too late? Are their concerns relevant to a comfortable and disinterested population?
I started the book because the premise seemed to be four friends with differ political views, perhaps leading to more then a simple partisan dichotomy But there was only a slight whisper of a story and the book was one sided at best. Most of the book was describing context about constraints from government control which barely hidden lectures to the reader.