Sycamore eBook Craig A Falconer
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Imagine a world where your eyes can't be trusted...
When the Sycamore corporation releases The Seed -- an implantable microchip designed to replace smartphones -- the gadget's launch breaks all records.
Augmented reality contact lenses act as the new system's display, simultaneously recording everything in the user's field of vision. Users can zoom in on any object in real time, instantly see social data on whoever they're looking at, and even rewind to relive their fondest memories. The applications are limitless.
Kurt Jacobs, The Seed's young creator, receives universal acclaim and adulation for his invention. But as the days go by and Kurt learns more about Sycamore's inner workings, he begins to fear that he might have made a terrible mistake...
Power like this has never existed.
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Sycamore eBook Craig A Falconer
Imagine if Google Glass actually became a thing, and then was further developed to be simple contact lenses. Then imagine Amazon and Walmart having a baby. Then that baby teams up with the Google Glass lenses. That would be Sycamore in a nutshell. It's the near future and millions of people wear UltraLenses which sync to their phones and computers. But Kurt has this idea to eliminate the need for additional devices: have your hand become a trackpad! It's genius and innovative and just one of his many improvements. Unfortunately, once this tech is out there, there's no stopping the company from using it for whatever they want.Sycamore was super cool and intense. The idea of UltraLenses paired up with Kurt's microchip is awesome. All the technology you need is right on your person. He also came up with the idea of having the lenses record your life for later playback. You can relive your first kiss! Prom! Disneyland vacation! Anything! Of course, the Sycamore company who develops his idea takes it to the extreme, as you can imagine. Tracking, targeted advertising, digitized money, virtual plastic surgery! It's madness! This is not what Kurt had in mind, and it was totally twisted how this company was able to make it all seem like good, safe ideas, and avoid responsibility when things go wrong. They're basically like "We don't force people to do X, we just charge them for it!" It's madness.
There were only two things that really kept me from loving Sycamore. The first was that it needed some more editing. At first I thought it was set in the UK because of some of the words used and the punctuation, but then we're told that it's set in America. There's even mentions of VAT, which as far as I know isn't used here. It was just distracting and pulled me out the story when I noticed it. There's no reason that this couldn't have been set somewhere in Europe, but I suppose America is the most obsessed with smart phones and invasive tech.
The second was that there's multiple mentions of needing the UltraLenses for getting into houses, cars, etc and how if Sycamore shuts down your chip, then you're locked out. But not everyone had lenses before Kurt's chip, so therefore not everyone has this kind of tech on their houses and cars, and those same people are probably the ones who didn't buy the chip when it did come out, so they still wouldn't have that tech on their houses and cars. There would have needed to be a complete overhaul on infrastructure and there's no way that happened.
I don't want to give too much away, but Sycamore was a great read. This future feels probable. Much of this stuff already exists, it's just not at the level it's portrayed here. We're living in a time where almost everyone is constantly plugged in, we're constantly be bombarded with ads, being told to buy this and wear that. It's not hard to imagine technology developing this far in the name of progress to the point where we forget what's even real anymore and become wholly dependent on it. Of course, Kurt has to fight the system he accidentally helped create, but that's not until the sequel!
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Sycamore eBook Craig A Falconer Reviews
How does One control society of hundreds millions of people? One does it by constant surveillance. One does it by manipulating people to make them believe that they need gadgets that one wants to be sold. One does it by making people believe that they want political choices One wants them to make. And finally, One does it by replacing the true reality with the virtual one. These are not exactly the new concepts and we see the elements of these in our present life. The virtue of this book is description of the process by which our present world may became a new nightmarish one, with us applauding all the way.
Kurt is a talented but a little naïve and socially isolated young men who invents a set of implants meant to replace internet, I-phones, TV, etc, and make communication between people easier. The new technology becomes extremely popular almost overnight. The problem is that just a single, profit-oriented, company (named Sycamore) takes a full control of the new communication system and pretty soon starts using it in a ways very different from what the inventor had in mind.
If, at the moment, you are in the mood for fast action, galactic battles and exotic aliens that is not a right book for you. But if you are in the mood for some reflection on where we may end up in the close future and do not feel like reading tedious academic articles about it, “Sycamore” is a perfect book for you. The adventurous plot is intermingled with philosophical questions and book is a little over talked, especially in the first half, but it makes you think.
When compared with old classic fiction on similar topics “Sycamore” is much more fun to read than “1984” by G. Orwell (which in my humble opinion borders on being boring) but not as much as “Futurological Congress” by S. Lem. But the last one is 6 stars. So, it is 5 stars for “Sycamore”.
This book knocked my socks off. Other reviewers can tell you the basics of the story. What I liked was the length and breadth of the story. Completely original, a subject I've never seen covered before, yet oh so believable, something that could happen in the next week or two! Excellent characters to whom I could relate, perfectly paced so it never because dull, yet didn't feel rushed... All in all, an excellent read. It was good enough that when I finished reading it I immediately purchased the other 3 books in this series. Now that says it all! Mr Falconer has my full and undivided attention!
Imagine if Google Glass actually became a thing, and then was further developed to be simple contact lenses. Then imagine and Walmart having a baby. Then that baby teams up with the Google Glass lenses. That would be Sycamore in a nutshell. It's the near future and millions of people wear UltraLenses which sync to their phones and computers. But Kurt has this idea to eliminate the need for additional devices have your hand become a trackpad! It's genius and innovative and just one of his many improvements. Unfortunately, once this tech is out there, there's no stopping the company from using it for whatever they want.
Sycamore was super cool and intense. The idea of UltraLenses paired up with Kurt's microchip is awesome. All the technology you need is right on your person. He also came up with the idea of having the lenses record your life for later playback. You can relive your first kiss! Prom! Disneyland vacation! Anything! Of course, the Sycamore company who develops his idea takes it to the extreme, as you can imagine. Tracking, targeted advertising, digitized money, virtual plastic surgery! It's madness! This is not what Kurt had in mind, and it was totally twisted how this company was able to make it all seem like good, safe ideas, and avoid responsibility when things go wrong. They're basically like "We don't force people to do X, we just charge them for it!" It's madness.
There were only two things that really kept me from loving Sycamore. The first was that it needed some more editing. At first I thought it was set in the UK because of some of the words used and the punctuation, but then we're told that it's set in America. There's even mentions of VAT, which as far as I know isn't used here. It was just distracting and pulled me out the story when I noticed it. There's no reason that this couldn't have been set somewhere in Europe, but I suppose America is the most obsessed with smart phones and invasive tech.
The second was that there's multiple mentions of needing the UltraLenses for getting into houses, cars, etc and how if Sycamore shuts down your chip, then you're locked out. But not everyone had lenses before Kurt's chip, so therefore not everyone has this kind of tech on their houses and cars, and those same people are probably the ones who didn't buy the chip when it did come out, so they still wouldn't have that tech on their houses and cars. There would have needed to be a complete overhaul on infrastructure and there's no way that happened.
I don't want to give too much away, but Sycamore was a great read. This future feels probable. Much of this stuff already exists, it's just not at the level it's portrayed here. We're living in a time where almost everyone is constantly plugged in, we're constantly be bombarded with ads, being told to buy this and wear that. It's not hard to imagine technology developing this far in the name of progress to the point where we forget what's even real anymore and become wholly dependent on it. Of course, Kurt has to fight the system he accidentally helped create, but that's not until the sequel!
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