Pattern Recognition

This story had me experiencing nostalgia for a time before YouTube was corporate and censoring. I also felt the traumatic emotional memories being an adult who witnessed 9/11/01.

Pattern Recognition had a surprising historical fiction feel for something that's science fiction. That's probably because I'm reading this nearly 20 years too late.

I did learn a new word, “Apophenia: the tendency to mistakenly perceive connections and meaning between unrelated things.”

I also like this:

“Paranoia, he said, was fundamentally egocentric, and every conspiracy theory served in some way to aggrandize the believer.”