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The book covers that pre-Trump stuff. From memory it was something like Obama got elected using a form of microtargeting and Republicans realised they were way behind on using big data. So the early parts were almost 8 years before Trump was elected. I think the company (not yet called Cambridge Analytica) was involved in dodgy stuff in developing countries ahead of that as well.
That does sound interesting. I'm really behind on reading about all that big picture stuff. There's a book called Surveillance Capitalism I keep meaning to read to help me make sense of what is going on.
Lately I get the impression that "Republicans" and "Democrats" aren't really the driving forces behind any of this - it's oligarchs or something.
Problem is my brain rebels against non fiction lately and would much rather read a sci fi about evolved spiders exploring space!
Tell me more about these spiders exploring space? Presuming we aren't talking Ender's Game.
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. The premise is that jumping spiders evolve into a complex civilization.
It cuts between humans and jumping spiders - the humans keep going into hypersleep so it's the same humans, but the jumping spider side is like an epic and covers many centuries.
Have now finished it, it was really good in a light-hearted way.
I've always been fond of irl jumping spiders so imagining it is super cute.
Ah I've heard of that but haven't read it. I'll put it on my list, thanks!
Edit: it was already on my list ๐ . But has a 9 week wait on Libby.
That's hilarious!
9 weeks ay. You'll just have to go into a cryochamber to wait for it.
Haha I could try, but I haven't learnt how to make one yet! I presume this will be covered in the instructions in the book.
It's very soft scifi unfortunately. Think The Sparrow not The Martian.
Otoh it does sort of tell you a fair bit about how to build webs. ๐
Haha soft scifi is good. I'll wait my 9 weeks and see how it goes.
Cool, let me know!
I'll probably read the rest of the trilogy but apparently there's a drop in quality.
Will do! Warning, it can take me a long time to read a novel. Months. After spending all evening reading kids books it can be hard to get into a book for adults with the little remaining evening time. But I'll try to remember to let you know what I thought!
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. The premise is that jumping spiders evolve into a complex civilization.
It cuts between humans and jumping spiders - the humans keep going into hypersleep so it's the same humans, but the jumping spider side is like an epic and covers many centuries.
Have now finished it, it was really good in a light-hearted way.
I've always been fond of irl jumping spiders so imagining it is super cute.