Name: Known Citizen
SKU: 69164052
Price: 647.00 TWD
Availability: InStock
Author: Stephanie Libby;Daniel Libby
ISBN: 9798177760674

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Independently published

Author

Stephanie Libby;Daniel Libby

Language

English

Pages

256

ISBN13

9798177760674

Known Citizen

Stephanie Libby;Daniel Libby (Author) · Independently published · Physical Book

New Book Imported to Taiwan

Delivery: 06 Nov - 16 Nov

NT$ 647

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Synopsis "Known Citizen"

No one has to take away your choices when they can redesign the world around them. After the exposure of Project Orchard, systems engineer Danny Mercer thought the most dangerous problem was what predictive technology could learn about ordinary people. He was wrong. Two years later, the systems are still running—more regulated, more transparent, and more deeply embedded in everyday life. But prediction is no longer the endpoint. Prices, insurance rates, financing, rebates, incentives, and personalized offers can now shape behavior without ever issuing an order. Nobody tells Luis Ortega he cannot buy the gasoline van he wants. The loan is simply more expensive. The insurance costs more. The rebates point elsewhere. Every individual decision remains voluntary. At least on paper. As Danny investigates a new generation of optimization systems, he discovers an architecture of influence capable of turning public policy into millions of seemingly private choices. The deeper he looks, the harder the question becomes: When every option is available—but one has been made easier, cheaper, and more attractive than all the others—how free was the choice? Known Citizen: The Choice is the second book in The Known Citizen Trilogy, a near-future techno-thriller about behavioral prediction, personalized economics, institutional power, and the invisible systems that can shape a society without ever telling anyone what to do.