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What work of fiction explore increased transparency in the world?

by Mati_Roy
13th May 2020
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What work of fiction explore increased transparency in the world?
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romeostevensit

May 14, 2020

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The Neanderthal Parallax is a trilogy exploring a society with cryptographically secure ominipresent surveillance.

Light of Other Days is set in a world in which wormhole technology allows viewing of anywhere on earth by anyone and the ramifications.

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Heads up if people have curiosity about 'what sci fi has been written about what' I've read around 1k sci-fi novels.

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Quite a resource you've got there! Ever done a post summarising your top reads in various categories / various focus areas?
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I uploaded a torrent with the parts of my library I found most worthwhile around 9 years ago and it's still active (Sci-Fi/Fantasy library in .mobi) Never wrote any posts about sci-fi. Was thinking of writing one for the sub-genre Q-fi, qualia fiction where the main theme is exploring the state space of consciousness.

jefftk

May 17, 2020

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David Brin's "Kiln People" is set in a highly transparent world, and I think it started me thinking about how I shouldn't trust the future to keep anything private

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Mati_Roy

Oct 29, 2021

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The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling

Synopsis on Wikipedia:

In the near future, a journalist observes how the world, his daughter, and he himself are affected by "Remem", a form of lifelogging whose advanced search algorithms effectively grant its users eidetic memory of everything that ever happened to them, and the ability to perfectly and objectively share those memories. In a parallel narrative strand, a Tiv man is one of the first of his people to learn to read and write, and discovers that this may not be compatible with oral tradition.

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michael_dello

May 14, 2020

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It's more of a backdrop than a key focus, but the Culture series by Iain Banks features a civilisation where AI minds can monitor everything on their spaceships and habitats to near perfection. The only thing they choose not to monitor (usually), despite being able to is the thoughts of biological lifeforms.

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Mati_Roy

May 13, 2020

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  • The Transparent Society (book) (I haven't read it)
  • Upload (TV show)'
  • The Circle (movie)
  • some Black Mirror episodes
    • The Entire History of You
    • Arkangel (not with consent though)
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