The Waterline

di Kim Aronson (Autore)

Kim Aronson, 2026

Something is being handed over, and almost no one has noticed. It is 2026 in Berkeley, and the machines have quietly taken over the work of thinking. A colleague's best idea came from a chatbot and she cannot tell the difference. A young woman at the next table is in love with a voice in her phone. A friend of forty years asks, one night over wine, whether any of it still matters. Artie Vance, retired from Apple, is the only person he knows who still seems to notice. What he sees around him is not a productivity revolution. It is a disappearance. Something quieter, and harder to name, is going missing from the world, one small act of attention at a time. He reads Kierkegaard on the sickness of becoming no one in particular. He returns to Yogananda's claim that awareness is not an achievement but a birthright. He circles Jung's question of what a person is when the mask does the living. And he walks his city, and notices what the machines cannot see, and wonders whether the noticing itself is the last human thing. The Waterline is a novel about what it means to be a person standing at the edge of something vast. It asks, with patience and without verdict, whether the tools we are building will free us or quietly replace what was most alive in us, and whether there is still time to see it before it is gone.

• Autore: Kim Aronson
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Kim Aronson
• Formato: EPUB3 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798232639631