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In Absence of Fear
- Narrated by: Stacy Carolan
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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Summary
After years of terrorist attacks, murders and kidnappings, citizens of the State vote to enact the Protector Program. A predictive policing system, it signals the dawn of the New Era. Passive iD chips are implanted in every citizen's wrist, providing convenience and protection.
The chips enable users to unlock homes, start cars, transact in stores, and monitor their health. They also collect data.
Specially designed risk prediction algorithms parse and analyze user data to predict individual levels of threat, aiding the predictive policing program and eradicating crime in most cities.
Marus Winde has worked for the State's Intelligence Annex since the inception of the New Era. As Senior Algorithm Architect, no one is more dedicated to the predictive policing program. No one has greater trust in its proficiencies.
That is, until his young son vanishes inexplicably in broad daylight in the safest city in the world.
As Marus works to reconcile the program's deficiencies and unravel the mystery of his son’s disappearance, he discovers that the system he helped build is not only imperfect, but corruptible, and that even the greatest of technological advancements can't replicate human intuition.
In Absence of Fear is the vividly imagined debut novel by Celeste Chaney that explores the role technology plays in our lives. Is it our servant, or are we its slaves? Examining themes of privacy, family, love and patriotism, this remarkably gripping story has been called “the 1984 for the post-Snowden era.”
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- byronmsb
- 24-01-23
Excellent futuristic thriller
Excellent, well plotted and written thriller set in a surveillance state world, in the tradition of Nineteen Eighty Four. Well read, it was engaging and propulsive listening.
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- Susan
- 03-02-23
More than 1 book
At first I was frustrated that there wasn’t more about how the laws came into being…. Exactly how the world fell into a lawless land but then it did become clear that that wasn’t the main focus and it didn’t really matter that I didn’t know. But by the time the story had moved in I wasn’t all the bothered about the main characters; I wasn’t invested in them at all. In all a good idea and I like this kind of genre but maybe this book had more than 1 in it…. More books mean more emphasis on character development and a more tangible setting for what was to come next.
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