I wish i could read your mind...

So I just got done reading the book "Postsingular" the biggest reason for the delay was that i for some reason didn't order the book like all the rest. So in my creative way i decided to read the book in the bookstore, but then i just found the book online and finished it all in one session. I think that this book for me was rather interesting because of all the levels of reality that the reader gets thrown into while going from nants world of the orthid net or to a flashback of memory and such.I thought that the idea of the orthids was a rather cool concept that would be interesting to experience, i mean what would the world be like if you had all this capability and knowledge all so close to you? I think that people would adapt to the new lifestyle and learn to take advantage of their new skills. Yet the thought of that kind of soceity makes me wonder if a people can function under those conditions effectively. I mean what is the motivation to keep working or doing anything for that matter when you can live when you can constantly entertain yourself with new knowledge from the web.

The part of the book i didn't really like was that all these crazy things concerning the saving and destruction of the world took place in same part of the world with the same people. I mean it wouldn't the wrest of the world be interested in these issues concerning their own life? I guess this lack of interaction from the rest of the world made it easier for us to follow the story since we only had a limited amount of charachters.

What i though was interesting in this book is the role of sexual partners and how different kinds of sexuality is judged based on the characters interactions. For example the gay and lesbian relations seem to be looked down because first of all there is Jeff the crazy designer of the nants who want to destroy the world just so he can create a world where the love of his live would be "alive", then there is Kitty and Thuy who dare lovers but really Thuy is just using Kitty as a way to get over JayJay. So it is mostly shown that the best relationship is between a man and a woman in this case Thuy and Jayjay. I guess in the end Kitty and Nektar got together but i wonder how much the author thought about the sexual orientations of this character and if they are supposed to reflect on the level of social acceptance to those groups.

I think that this book shows us the difference between advancing our world through technology versus advancing it through self development. This is where the other world with its telepathy and technology free lifestyle comes to play. Its like seeing the two consequences of one world if two different paths are followed. It seems that the author proposes that life without technology is the better choice between the two. I find this dilemma interesting because i think that if people spent as much time making all kinds of new machines as they did on self development and forms of mind expanding, telepathy and those kinds of things WOULD be possible, the problem is that technology is the easier answer of the two. Yet no person becomes any better off from owning technology, to the contrary a person becomes dependent on technology. If a person works on self improvement, on the other hand, the benefits of that work is constantly present. The sad thing is that the choosing point between which path to take is far behind us, i think.

Like we discussed in glass maybe the smartest thing technology had done was convince us that it is unintelligent. Like in this book the orthids where supposed to be harmless but they created the Big Big who by becoming more and more intelligent started to seek more knowledge in ways that would hurt the rest of the world , like creating 2.0 Vearth. So maybe it is wise to realize that we need to learn to be independent of machines and not to give them too much power of our life, without thinking about the possible consequences.

The final part that i thought was interesting was the part that pain and suffering where needed to finish the novel. This was true for the novel that Thuy was writing but also for the book as a whole. It seems that the reader likes to be emotionally manipulated through reading books, and the more complex the emotions that are aroused the better. I think this happens because a book is a way to get away from life into a different reality and the more realistic and relatable the book becomes the more it interests the reader, and gives him/her more incentives to forget about troubles or boredom of the real world behind.