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Title: A Good Author Loses His Grip
Review: I have enjoyed Sterling's fiction and probably will continue to do so. Unfortunately, he has skidded off the runway with Tomorrow Now. This is a pile of words with no real ideas, just recycled catch-memes that read like the breathless cyber-cheerleading mindporn of a late-nineties Wired issue.Between the lines of this book is the feeling that Sterling felt compelled to write it; that he needed to publish a volume of punditry in order to continue being invited to Davos, an achievement that he mentions frequently enough to be irritating. An author of his stature and experience shouldn't have to strike a pose, over and over, but that is what this book is really about. If you want to understand the future, go back and read Orwell.
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