{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"Cloudthinker","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/cloudthinker","description":"Set in a not-too-distant future, where advanced AI technology is taking over the workforce and threatening to unravel society, Cloudthinker is a propulsive new thriller that confronts the world of big tech, memory and consciousness, and what it means to be human. Numbers don\u0026#39;t lie. But people do. That\u0026#39;s why math genius Boogie Wu stays hyperfocused on her job at tech giant Magenta, where she\u0026#39;s constructing a digital model of the trillions of connections in the human brain. Boogie\u0026#39;s bosses are the ones telling lies. Lies like why they hired her, where they get the neural scan data, and especially the real purpose of the brain model. The lies are also why, five years in Boogie\u0026#39;s future, tech journalist Parham Nasiri digs for the deeper story at protests against Cloudthinker, Magenta\u0026#39;s new AI service that is putting waves of people out of work. Until his employers subscribe to the service, and the AI takes his job too. Parham follows the trail and it leads him first to Boogie, and then to the world-shaking consequences of Magenta\u0026#39;s ambition. To stop the world from tipping into crisis, the two will each have to solve a new kind of equation, one whose only solution equals danger. A striking debut novel by a tech industry insider, Cloudthinker is recommended for fans of high-concept techno-thrillers like those by Blake Crouch, Daniel Suarez, A.G. Riddle, and Neal Stephenson.","author_name":"Andrew McGlinchey","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/andrew-mcglinchey","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/edition/32627854/369bc94c71e33737ce657ee26a9ca44748eb63c1.jpeg","thumbnail_width":328,"thumbnail_height":500}