The Boost

De: Stephen Baker

Narrado por: David Doersch

Ralf is a software prodigy. He works in the US government office that updates the software in the population's boosts - networked supercomputers contained in a chip implanted within the brains of 99 percent of the world’s population. Invented by Chinese researchers in 2032, the boost is credited with leading humanity to its most significant cognitive leap since the discovery of fire. Days before a national upgrade, Ralf notices that the update includes an open surveillance gate - meaning that Americans, who had negotiated high levels of privacy with the Chinese manufacturers, will now be subjected to the invasive Chinese standard. Ralf attempts to hack the boost, but is caught by agents working for Washington’s preeminent lobbyist. His boost is ripped from his head, and Ralf barely escapes with his life. Pursued by the lobbyist’s mercenary cadre, Ralf flees to the US–Mexico border, where there are others like him - “wild” humans on the fringes of society, unenhanced by technology. It’s a frightening and backward world controlled by powerful drug lords. Ralf’s only hope is to somehow work with these wild bosses of the analog world - in hopes of winning back freedom in the digital one.

©2014 Stephen Baker (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

Imaginative and Funny But a Bit Flat

Great idea for a book but the actually story can be a bit silly and flat. Had fun with it but it didn't hold me like I like from a story. Characters are a bit silly but I can't decide if that was fun or annoying or a bit of both.

Like a Bitched B Movie

the story is believable to a point. China making chips and there being a Chip War like the Space Race of the 20th century? Okay, cool. The point when it became like a B movie was when I realized that everyone was either a douche or xenophobic. Don’t even get me started on all of the info dumping!