#infomacracy

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I think it’s time for some science fiction, don’t you? This month we are reading: Infomocracy by Malka Older!

This book was on quite a few “best of” lists so we are looking forward to reading it. The story centers around a few people during an intense election cycle that is influenced by a supercomputer/ search engine… sooo kind of appropriate for now, yeah?

You can find this book on Amazon or at an Indie bookstore near you and join us! Right now we are a little bit behind schedule so our tentative discussion date is August 5th at 8pm EST on twitter.

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It’s Not a Good Idea to Forget About the Null States

In the technocratic, information-driven world of my Centenal Cycle novels, “null states” is a technical term for the remaining nation-states that are not a part of micro-democracy and refuse to allow access to the global bureaucracy of Information. It comes from the old computer science term for when a field doesn’t have any data in it: neither yes nor no, empty. For the people in Infomocracy’s future, accustomed to immersive surveillance and data, the remaining nation-states are blanks. They are easy to forget about and it’s easy to imagine they don’t affect the interconnected governments of the micro-democratic system.

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Looking for TBR ideas? io9 is here to help with 18 #SFF recommendations for June.