QualityLand
Kling, Marc-Uwe2020
Book
Everything in QualityLand is geared towards optimizing your life. QualityPartner identifies your ideal mate, earworm personal assistants get you where you need to go and android drones know you need a six pack of beer at the end of a long day even before you crave one. Humans, robots, and algorithms co-exist, everything is seamlessly corporatised, stratified, and monetized. Your very name reveals much of what we need to know about you and your profile discloses the rest. Peter Jobless is a down and out metal press operator, dumped by his long term girlfriend when she is alerted to a better option on her QualityPad. But Peter has another problem - he seems to be the only one noticing that his fellow QualityLand robot citizens are experiencing an existential crisis.
Main title:
QualityLand / Marc-Uwe Kling ; translated from the German into English by Jamie Lee Searle.
Author:
Kling, Marc-Uwe, authorRomanelli, Jamie Searle, translator
Work:
Imprint:
London : Orion, 2020.
Collation:
339 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Translated from the German.
ISBN:
9781409191131 (hbk)
Dewey class:
833.92
Language:
EnglishGerman
Subject:
BRN:
2903547