“Reform: Combating the Algorithmic Mutation” by Scott Bollens
“ReForm: Combating the Algorithmic Mutation” by Scott Bollens is a fascinating and unique dystopian novel. The United States no longer exists. Only those in power have any level of wealth or comfort. Worse yet, people are no longer in control, having abdicated power to the supercomputer that was their greatest achievement. This ultimate power by machinery crept in slowly, seemingly benign at first. But as the computer learned and recognized the negative traits of humankind, it gradually rewrote its own program. Now the vast majority of humans are implanted with a chip in their brains where the machine feeds them its own version of reality. People are no longer citizens, no longer inhabitants with the rights, privileges, and protections of their government. They are now denizens. They are aliens admitted to residence and adapted to new conditions. They are not in Kansas anymore. … More “Reform: Combating the Algorithmic Mutation” by Scott Bollens