I fully agree with Tara. For me the futuristic world in the book is certainly not a better world than ours. In that futuristic world the controls at all levels, the total and absolute lack of privacy even in what is meant as "privacy booths", and the pre-programming of the human life paths since before they are born, are suffocating. Our world may have its issues, and many of them, but it still maintains the personal freedoms and the free will to think and act - that makes our world better than the world in the book. And the futuristic world simply cannot be better than ours because the AIs who are designed to control it are prototypes of humans and are made by copying the consciousness of humans, like Kim, carefully selected not to be perfectly virtuous. As the result, the AIs inherit the human sins plus they are made to lack self-awareness and be heartlessly unemotional and blindly obedient. What can you expect from this kind of enforcement authorities?! So no, not a better world in the book!Tara D Morgan wrote: ↑09 Dec 2022, 13:35 I don't think the futuristic society portrayed in the book is better off than ours. Humans have been given the brain power to make choices, and in this world, humans are expected to behave and act like robots, having no choices in life. If they do step out of line, the punishments are cruel. This wouldn't be a world I would want to live in. I would not be able to cope if I wasn't allowed to think for myself and it also sounds like a drab world with all the gender-neutral colours; nope, definitely not a better world!
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I have to agree with you on this one. Imagine not being able to raise your own child because of some terms! NOPE! Not for me!Hubre De Klerk wrote: ↑20 Dec 2022, 04:28 I don't think it was worth the price at all. Having almost no control over what you wear, what you eat, what you say and do, etc. But most of all, giving your child up - that is a definite no from me. Not worth the price at all!
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I agree. Just to look at the other side of the conversation, there are some societies that would not mind having no full control over their lives as long as things are running smoothly. Some aspects of the book do exist in the real world in different parts of the world.Hubre De Klerk wrote: ↑20 Dec 2022, 04:28 I don't think it was worth the price at all. Having almost no control over what you wear, what you eat, what you say and do, etc. But most of all, giving your child up - that is a definite no from me. Not worth the price at all!
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My thoughts exactly, and the whole "Our children" but not caring whether the children had non traumatizing childhoods did not make sense.Hubre De Klerk wrote: ↑20 Dec 2022, 04:28 I don't think it was worth the price at all. Having almost no control over what you wear, what you eat, what you say and do, etc. But most of all, giving your child up - that is a definite no from me. Not worth the price at all!
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