It is mostly a tedious grind of keeping fans and paparazzi at bay and fending off the few real threats that filter through. Welga Ramirez is a former military operative who has joined a private security company that provides body guards for Funders (among others). Funders (a variation on venture capitalists) have in many instances become media heroes.
People are mostly private contractors and the markets are utterly decentralized, and even the companies have been transformed to a kind of gig-investment capitalism. Then the advent of more and more sophisticated augmentation enabling humans to supplement, increase, even alter their capacity to function in a faster, more numerically-driven job market.Īnd that job market? The gig economy has, in this instance, won out over traditional working relationships. The main issue was the inability of humans to compete with evermore sophisticated machines, both physically and mentally. For one thing, a technological fix has blunted some of the old difficulties and made the situation, for millions (or billions) livable. As happens, post-revolution, a new equilibrium has been established, one which has addressed some of the issues that sparked the unpleasantness, but left new versions of old problems still operating.
The world has been through a couple of revolutions, mostly centering around the complications arising from the developing sophistication of machine intelligence as it impacts people in their situations. But this is science fiction and the point is not to accept a regression to the mean but to examine consequences and suggest actual change. If this were a standard-issue technothriller, certainly.
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