Vauhini Vara Knihy

Exploring the intersection of technology and language, this book delves into how A.I. companies, particularly after the launch of ChatGPT, are reshaping human communication. The author, a seasoned tech journalist, reflects on her personal experiences with language and technology, including the impact of her viral essay about her sister's death. By examining her own online interactions and the broader implications of corporate control over language, she advocates for a more liberated relationship with machines, urging a return to the collective creativity that defines human communication.

Will you, dear Shareholder, set Athena free? Athena Rao must reckon with the memory of her father, King Rao - literally. Through biotechnological innovation, he has given her his memories. His Dalit childhood on an Indian coconut plantation in the 1950s is as alive to her as her own existence in a prison cell, accused of her father's murder. Egocentric, brilliant, a little damaged, King Rao had a visionary idea: the personal computer known as the Coconut. His wife, Margie, was an artist with a marketing genius. Together they created a new world order, led by a corporate-run government. Athena's future is now in the hands of its Shareholders - unless she can rejoin the Exes, a resistance group sustaining tech-free lifestyles on low-lying islands. Lyrical, satirical and profound, The Immortal King Rao obliterates genre to confront the digital age. This gripping, brilliant debut poses an urgent question: can anyone - peasant laborers, convention-destroying entrepreneurs, radical anarchists, social-media followers - ever get free?

Stories of uncanny originality from a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.