unplugged

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>ONE OF <em>KIRKUS REVIEWS</em>' BEST INDIE BOOKS OF 2024</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>America 2046. </strong>The youngest of Millennials will be middle-aged. Their children Generation Alpha (disparagingly referred to as the Children of COVID) will be just getting out of college. Twenty-two years of perpetual cynicism and emotional numbness will create a generation of timid antisocial brainiacs. There'll be ten billion people in the world and not nearly enough work to go around.</p><p></p><p>Quentin will only know a world enshrouded by the Internet an algorithmic world a hindered world. A botched suicide attempt in his late twenties will inspire a revelation an impulsive declaration online <span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>urging fellow young folk to boycott the Internet in the hopes of reverting society back to its pre-digital existence.</span> Quentin's manifesto will strike a chord with Gen A and the Unplug Movement will be born. But as America's greedy present finds itself in conflict with America's neglected future #Unplug will explode into a generational culture war that cannot be stopped cannot be tamed and cannot be won.</p><p></p><p>David Schulze's <strong>unplugged</strong> imagines a world just around the corner a satire on nostalgia fickle capitalism and emotional activism that's just as relevant today as it will be when it's all too late. </p>