Official Intelligent Beings: How Our Devices Became Us, And The World Consumed Itself

For this who enjoy books such as; 1984, Brave New World, Siddhartha, Hunger Games and The Stand, and Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing, Official Intelligent Beings may very well be right up your alley. It is a quick, yet powerful, read, that challenges one's perception of the world and seeks to understand present day life while considers a possible future. Summary: In the not so distant future, life is simple. Everyone knows their place, they have their job that they do diligently, they have their devices that give them what they need, there are no more questions about right and wrong, no more fighting for one’s beliefs, no one is superior to another, intimate relationships are done away with, and hunger is a thing of the past. This has been made so thanks to the Official Intelligent Beings—a far more advanced super-human, birthed on Earth, with a complete and perfect knowledge of all the fields known to man. They are the natural leaders of the planet, the ones that everyone looks to, listens to, follows, believes in, and trusts, without doubt. That is, of course, except for a small percentage of the population that just can’t seem to fit in. Jagz was one of the few that went against the grain of society. He was amongst those that fought the urge to take the pills that made everything so perfectly aligned, kept everyone happy, and helped them remain thoughtless. Jagz was just another social content creator, speaking his mind’s truths to his small group of slowly growing followers, using his words to inspire those that didn’t seem to have thoughts of their own. That was, until one day, when he was summoned in for an unlikely meeting with the head of a major Webwork and told top secret, Earth shattering information. Lost and alone, Jagz had to make a choice: share his knowledge with the world and risk complete and utter chaos, or keep it to himself and let it eat him alive.