Dave Egger The Circle News Today

From the real story of a virus that took out Iran’s urianium centrifuges to a surprisingly good Dan Brown novel, these are some of the best stories of our new era of ill online deeds

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0Shares Don’t be evil. It’s the epigraph of David Yoon’s new satirical tech thriller, Version Zero. Yoon cites the quote as an “Internet proverb,” though it’s actually taken from the corporate code of conduct at Google. As our lives have shifted onto the Internet, we become ever more reliant on the hope that Google—and the other giant tech companies that rule the world—will keep their promise to not be evil . Spoiler: They broke that promise a long time ago. Penguin Random Hous...

If we had read an account of any of 2020s world events in a novel we would have been satisfied knowing it was exactly that: fiction. Contemporary events have always affected readership and with restrictions as they are, reading - and fiction especially - is proving to be a vital form of entertainment and escapism.