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The bestselling and award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it.
When Martha Einkorn fled her father's isolated Oregon compound, she didn't expect to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul determined to control everything. Today, she is surrounded by very wealthy companies that design private weather forecasts, predictive analytics, and secret weapons, all while casting technological prophecies. Martha may have left the cult, but if the apocalyptic warnings contained in her father's sermon about the fox and the rabbit – once a parable to her – begin to come true, what future does she really have left?
On the other side of the world, in a Singapore shopping mall, Lai Zhen, a famous Internet survivor, is fleeing an assassin. She's cornered, desperate, and worst of all, she could die without ever knowing what's happening. Suddenly, remarkable software appears on his phone telling him exactly how to escape. That he has done? What is it really for? And if those behind all this can save her from danger, what do they want from her and what else do they know about the future?
Martha and Zhen's worlds are about to collide. An explosive chain of events is set in motion. While a few self-assured billionaires lead the world toward destruction, Martha's relentless drive and Zhen's insatiable curiosity could lead to something beautiful or the cataclysmic end of civilization.
By turns thrilling, hilarious, tender and always piercingly brilliant, The Future unfolds at breakneck speed, highlighting how power corrupts those who hold it and what it means to stand up to them. The future is coming. The future is here.
Naomi Alderman is the bestselling author of The Power, which won the Baileys' Women's Prize for Fiction 2017. It was shortlisted for the 2017 Orwell Prize and chosen as one of the best books of the year by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, NPR, Entertainment Weekly and the San Francisco Chronicle. The Power topped Barack Obama's list of his favorite books of 2017 and has been translated into more than thirty languages. Naomi grew up in London and attended Oxford University and UEA.
The alderman is in conversation with Kara Swisher. Kara Swisher is the author of the upcoming book, Burn Book, releasing in March 2024. She is the host of the On podcast with Kara Swisher and the co-host of the Pivot podcast with Scott Galloway, both distributed by New York magazine. She is also co-founder and editor-in-chief of Recode, host of the Recode Decode podcast, and co-executive producer of the Code conference. She was a former opinion editor for The New York Times and host of its podcast Sway and also worked for The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.
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