Centenal Cycle - Malka Older

Written by Malka Older
Read by Christine Marshall
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

All books Inaudible TrueDecrypt (64kbps stereo AAC). Includes ebooks.

01. Infomocracy (©&℗2016, ~10h)
02. Null States (©&℗2017, ~12h)
03. State Tectonics (©&℗2018, ~11h)

“The Centenal Cycle examines a near future world with a radical form of global democracy. Older’s thought-experiment novels takes the ‘marketplace of ideas’ seriously with a world where people might move a few blocks in a big city to change their government. The grout in the tiles of worldwide micro-democracy is information and ‘Information’. The latter is an organisation that is a cross between a nationalised Google, a surveillance state, a non-partisan civil service, the ‘deep state’ and a benevolent version of a Wikipedia of everything.

The premise of ‘Information’ feels like a set-up for a dystopian novel: aside from poorer nations and the opt-out ‘null states”, people live in a state of near constant surveillance. However, Older shows people who have made the same kind of Faustian bargain we all make with our current technology: paying for information about others with information about ourselves. The books are not a deep dive into the ethics of surveillance but rather address the different question: who controls truth?”

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