| A Live Response Contributor(s): Bronson, Glenn (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798640812411 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $6.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2020 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Alternative History |
| Physical Information: 0.32" H x 8.5" W x 11.02" (0.80 lbs) 150 pages |
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| Publisher Description: The year is 1996. The world has just come out of an Ebola pandemic, rock roll oldie radio stations were popular in the United States, and Gateway Computers dominated the personal computer market. This is before Youtube, before Twitter, before Facebook, before Waze, and before you could even publish or do much online Glenn Bronson is young engineer in Massachusetts who was first on the internet in 1987. He has just graduated from college, and traveled the world presenting his graduate thesis in 1993 on a brand new technology called..."wifi". Few people wanted it since it was not as fast and reliable as a wired network, but he believed it was the inevitable way of he future. In his travels he sees the the latest in artificial intelligence, facial recognition, and wireless communication. The web browser is a new invention and neither the internet boom nor the dot com bust has happened yet. Getting a new job at Bay Networks outside of Boston, Glenn envisions what the world would look like with the internet twenty years into the future in which everyone MUST be connected by mobile internet and artificial intelligence on a daily basis just to survive. He invents a character, Donald Anthony Breck, as alter image of himself and his real job. He puts his character in the middle of a pandemic that occurs in the future in the year 2017. Glenn's grandmother and aunts had been a survivor of the pandemic of 1918, and studying and understanding it had been an obsession for him since his childhood. Glenn believed that pandemics would be an inevitable commonplace occurrence in the future, battled by technology. He then takes his screenplay and travels to Los Angeles to sell in April 1997. The result? Glenn learns., .a lot...about the movie industry... and decides it is not a place for writers or creative people. He decides to write stories, not screenplays. A Live Response would not see the light of day again until 2013. Read it here In its original form, from the year 1996, to see how close his predictions came. It might astound you Most importantly it's social lessons and warnings seem to have withstood the test of time. A Live Response is a critical look at the good and bad of the use of technology and the practical and social uses of the internet and digital communication, and how it would be used during the predicted pandemic that he believed would occur in 2017.Copyright 1996, 2013, 2020 |