Infomocracy

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Call Number: Science Fiction / Older, Malka, Adult Book / Fiction / Science Fiction / General / Older, Malka
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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"A Tom Doherty Associates book."

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Starts like quicksand but finishes strong. submitted by eknapp on July 22, 2016, 1:59pm I both enjoy and despise politics. I'm as sick as anyone of the spiraling deceit and pandering and power-mongering and insultingly bald-faced lies. But I flat out love how with a little training, one can see through the insidious fallacies, manipulations, and true-sounding falsehoods that comprise political rhetoric. The author hopefully yet cynically envisions a world where the people at last have the tools to make optimal, fully informed governance choices. But duplicity and corruption persist.

Infomocracy seems like an intelligent critique of the failures of democracy and how the system might possibly be fixed. It's also an examination of how information not only describes elections but affects them directly as well, and of how any system, no matter how carefully built to prevent it, can be subverted.

Infomocracy is so slow and muddled at first that I came within a hair of DNFing after sixty pages. But day-amn, what a recovery. It was a chore to wrap my head around the point-of-view characters, the vast futuristic global political system, and the various parties vying for power, but once I did I couldn't put the book down. So glad I stuck it out.

Worth reading, starts out slow, but wow submitted by Joe Smuda on August 6, 2019, 6:02pm It starts out pretty ponderous an policy-wonky. But it becomes very interesting once you perceive the wonkyness woven into the plot. If you're heavily into policy& politics you'll likely enjoy it from the start - If you're not, patience will be well rewarded