Title: very dated
Product review: I ordered this book because Arthur Clarke referred to it in one of his books, said it was very well-written and funny. However, it's very dated, really predictable, and not at all funny. The concept of mind control gone awry was newer then when people were beginning to realize the kind of mind control exercised by marketing gurus. This is "How to Succeed in Business" pitted against "Elmer Gantry" struggling over the power of virtual reality, although they didn't call it that then.It's interesting to me that none of the science fiction stories I have ever read, and I've read a lot of them, had accurate predictions about the personal computer. It's very strange to read a book set in the future that doesn't mention the internet or laptops. In this book computers are still described as behemoths with those cards with holes in them...
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