Centenal Cycle - Malka Older

Malka Older

Category: Thriller

Narrator: Christine Marshall

Tags: Thriller, Political

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. Olders 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: