ReStart: Stories of the Cairn Age

In post-chaos 2052 a re-programmed investigator seeks to uncover the possibilities for independent human thinking after decades of humankinds addiction to a dominating computer network. This computer network wreaked havoc in society by redefining geographies segregating populations and creating catastrophic wars between computer-defined groups.Amidst the unexplained cessation of the interconnect network Jared Rohde faces vexing challenges in his search for a dependable truth bedeviled by personal frailties and psychic seizures puzzling encounters with traumatized individuals in war-torn cities professional linkages to a mysterious ReStart organization advocating societal reform and the pervasive effects of the mind-bending computer super-network. In attempting to restart society based on human cognition individuals struggle between the hard work of re-gaining independent cognition and an addictive longing for the personal freedom of un-thinking instinctual reactivity to computer stimuli.In ReStart: Stories of the Cairn Age by Scott Bollens we experience a near future both eerily familiar and disturbing an anthropological narrative of the effects of algorithmic sorting of social engineering gone awry. As his investigation deepens Rohdes self-identity and the survival strategy of the algorithmic network intertwine raising shocking implications for the future of human consciousness.