I read the first book, 4.0, and just loved it. So I was really excited to read The Future We Left Behind. I was a bit off-put when I started to read it though because it happens a thousand years after the first book. I should have realized though, what with the first one being .4 and this one 1.4. That means that the humans have been upgraded quite a few times.
The humans have filaments, which let them link into one another and the big brain of everything. It's quite alien-like. Peter is the narrator is this installment and he isn't sure he believes everything the way he was raised. He's taking a literature course (if his father finds out, he's toast) and he's staying off of the link (kind of like the internet) more and more. He's enjoying life, in an archaic way.
When his famous father comes up with a way for them to expand, the data is getting to full and people are losing memories, Peter decides that there may be more to the Straker tapes then he thought. Most folks find them just a legend, but there are those that still believe it is true.
The Future We Left Behind is a startling view of technology and is easily relatable to today's techno world. I found Peter and his new friends to be very intelligent and also true to their age, teenagers. Lancaster does a very good job of keeping things moving as well as leaving much food for thought. I thoroughly enjoyed it but I urge you to pick up the first book in the series first so that you experience the whole package.
The humans have filaments, which let them link into one another and the big brain of everything. It's quite alien-like. Peter is the narrator is this installment and he isn't sure he believes everything the way he was raised. He's taking a literature course (if his father finds out, he's toast) and he's staying off of the link (kind of like the internet) more and more. He's enjoying life, in an archaic way.
When his famous father comes up with a way for them to expand, the data is getting to full and people are losing memories, Peter decides that there may be more to the Straker tapes then he thought. Most folks find them just a legend, but there are those that still believe it is true.
The Future We Left Behind is a startling view of technology and is easily relatable to today's techno world. I found Peter and his new friends to be very intelligent and also true to their age, teenagers. Lancaster does a very good job of keeping things moving as well as leaving much food for thought. I thoroughly enjoyed it but I urge you to pick up the first book in the series first so that you experience the whole package.
YA science fiction/dystopian novel. The story unfolds as a transcription of a tape from the early 21st Century that was found in an undisclosed future time. There is an Editor's Note at the beginning explaining this, as well as occasional editor's notes within the transcription. These notes are easily discernable by use of a bold print within a box. Very interesting premis. Essentially, the human population has been upgraded all at the same time. Except for a few people, in this case 4 individuals who were hypnotised. It was a very quick read, but kept my interest the entire book.
