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Art Berry is a User Experience genius - he examines how humans interface with technology and looks at how to improve that interaction. He's very good at what he does, so why is he stuck on the roof of a mental health hospital? The story unfolds in semi-flashback form; meeting his girlfriend by nearly running her over and plotting & arguing with Federico about their latest project: controlling music swapping on the Massachusetts Turnpike.
Art is also a member of the Eastern Standard Tribe, a loos ...more
Art is also a member of the Eastern Standard Tribe, a loos ...more
An interesting near future story based on the idea that people with similiar attitudes and likes/dislikes will gather into electronic tribes.
Also a lot of high tech cell phone usage for communication and other things, plus a state psychological system gone very wrong.
The story is Art's, who's played by his friend and his lover. It tells about how he gets in and out of trouble at a very frenetic pace.
Best obligatory sex scene ever - three words - "Vigorous sex ensued" ...more
Also a lot of high tech cell phone usage for communication and other things, plus a state psychological system gone very wrong.
The story is Art's, who's played by his friend and his lover. It tells about how he gets in and out of trouble at a very frenetic pace.
Best obligatory sex scene ever - three words - "Vigorous sex ensued" ...more
I always enjoy Doctorow's books. He doesn't need my detailed analysis. All I can say is that I think having 10,000 tunes auto downloaded to your car's MP3 (or future equivalent) is a tad much. Maybe that's just me, but I'm pretty sure I don't like 10,000 songs. I probably like a couple hundred at most.
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This was another read on the T on my Palm. I never really did figure out what the tribe was about and somewhere in the middle I started thinking that I didn't like the story that much - too much crazy conniving girlfriend shtick and depressing trapped in a mental institution scenes, but then it all worked out for the best. The riffs on designing better systems were the most fun. (September 25, 2004)
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