Grid City Overload: 2 (Psychology of Technology Trilogy)

Set in the fictional hub of Grid on the verge of the Fourth Industrial Revolution Grid City Overload swirls around three central characters: a budding uppers addict an informational psychopath and schizotypal soda factory worker who believes hes a fish.Two interlocking conspiracies are converging on this socially and psychologically vulnerable trio in a city designed to function as a pure technocracy. Fueled by an abruptly powerful political movement the ubiquitous software company InfoZebra begins construction on a massive new corporate headquarters at the heart of Grid. At the same time the legal rights to a dying womans head are called into question. Between the two is a prodigiously skilled hacker who transforms both situations into scandals upending the city and ensnaring the people around her both knowing and unknowing.The result is a journey into the minds of the citizens and objects of Grid including dissident cultists highstrung partiers anti-identity authors a retired hitman tech tycoons and a sentient phone torn by love and revolution. This surrealistic and intricate novel the second installment in a triptych about technology and madness paints a psychological portrait of high-tech civilization struggling to keep up with its own advancements stumbling into an era in which human beings are abstract and reality takes on a new meaning.