{"product_id":"zed-9781984898340","title":"Zed","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the winner of the 2008 Orange Award for New Writing comes a blistering, satirical novel about life under a global media and tech corporation that knows exactly what we think, what we want, and what we will do--before we do.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne corporation has made a perfect world based on a perfect algorithm. Now, what to do with all these messy people?\u003cbr\u003e Lionel Bigman is dead. Murdered by a robot. Guy Matthias, the philandering founder and CEO of the mega-corporation Beetle, insists it was human error. But was it? Either the predictive algorithms of Beetle's supposedly omniscient lifechain don't work, or, they've been hacked. Both scenarios are impossible to imagine and signal the end of Beetle's technotopia and life as we know it.\u003cbr\u003e Dazzlingly original and darkly comic, \u003ci\u003eZed\u003c\/i\u003e asks profound questions about who we are, what we owe to one another, and what makes us human. It describes our moment--the ugliness and the beauty--perfectly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anchor Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/08\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781984898340\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.01h x 5.20w x 0.75d","brand":"Joanna Kavenna","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38024086225077,"sku":"9781984898340","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_158ceec0-5ce2-4140-a196-d8c60ec0f734.jpg?v=1609186399","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/zed-9781984898340","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}