Bestselling novelist Gary Shteyngart has spent the past 20 years predicting, with trademark pessimism and terrifying accuracy, the immediate future. His novel Super Sad True Love Story was written and published in the internet-as-savior optimistic early-2010s but predicts all of the negative consequences of technology that most of us failed to even remotely anticipate. The MySpaceification of formerly objective information, the concentration of influence, the factioning of identity groups -- he saw it all coming. How?? Can we also learn to see like this? Is it useful or terrible to have this kind of vision?

Further Reading - 

Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart

Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shtyengart

Lake Success by Gary Shteyngart

The Russian Debutante's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart 

Confessions of a Watch Geek, The New Yorker

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