打卡者昌,抗拒者亡。
網路、「天眼」步步進逼,
祕密全面公開,隱私全部揭露。
你,無處可藏。
梅兒 ‧ 霍蘭不敢相信自己如此幸運,竟然能到全球最具影響力的「環網」公司工作!「環網」坐落在日益擴張的加州園區,推出一種串連電子郵件、社交媒體、網路銀行、線上購物的作業系統,使用者只需一種身分就能暢遊網路,人人爭相使用,一個新時代就此降臨。
為了全心投入工作,梅兒離園區外的生活愈來愈遠,隱私愈來愈公開,直到神祕男子對她提出警告,她才發現,網路世界已經達到前所未有的透明化,無人能逃過它的掌控……
網路監控疑雲,風暴再起,震驚世界
真正的光明正大,就是毫無隱私
膽敢私藏祕密,千萬網友必展開終極搜索,直到你喪命為止!
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趕快停下來,別再寫推特給追蹤你的 484 位網友看,也別在臉書按讚。艾格斯寫了一本令人不寒而慄,一看就停不下來的新書,探討全球最強大的網路公司如何蠶食這個世界,值得埋首閱讀,細細深思。──瓦爾比(Karen Valby),《娛樂週刊》(Entertainment Weekly)
你會深深陷入戴夫 ‧ 艾格斯在這本小說描寫的未來世界情境,把臉書完全拋在腦後。看到故事結尾,你再次打開電腦之前會先想一想。──弗里曼(John Freeman),《歐普拉雜誌》(The Oprah Magazine)
精采絕倫,發人深省的小說…… 探討社會如何建構,又如何摧毀隱私,探討企業如何逐步掌控隱私,也探討企業掌控隱私對於西方民主政治的影響。──瑪格麗特 ‧ 愛特伍(Margaret Atwood),《紐約書評》(New York Review of Books)
艾格斯以逐漸攻占人類生活的社群媒體與個人科技裝置為題材,寫了一本高明又令人顫慄的新小說──康登(Patrick Condon),《美聯社》(Associated Press)
對網路時代最擲地有聲的諷刺。──《衛報》(Guardian)
逼真精采,寫的正是當下的時代。──《洛杉磯時報》(L.A Times)
艾格斯交出一張忠實清晰的數位時代浮世繪。──角谷美智子(Michiko Kakutani),《紐約時報》(The New York Times)
扣人心弦又讓人心神不寧,戴夫 ‧ 艾格斯即將成為最懂得刻畫與批判科技黑暗面的作家。──《週日時報》(Sunday Times)
切合時代,震撼人心。我們已經見過「老大哥」了,他就是我們自己。──《時代雜誌》(Time)
節奏明快,詼諧逗趣,令人擔憂顫慄。──《華盛頓郵報》(Washington Post)
-中文簡介擷取自中譯本《接密風暴》,天下文化出版
The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award.
When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling
California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and
transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company’s modernity and
activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish
retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can’t believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world—even as life beyond the campus grows distant,
even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman’s ambition and
idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.