Repetitive to the extreme

I made it through about 60% of the book before I just could not take it any longer. This clearly was designed as "the" novel about the ugly truth behind the internet and social media, but unfortunately, it just doesn't cut it. Some very basic, juvenile computer lingo as intro combined with tons of (very) obvious references to big tech companies that are clearly meant to remind people of Facebook, Google, Amazon, AirBnB, Uber and so on. No real plot to speak of, so the story drags on explaining how the tech giants (mis)use the user data and interface with security agencies to create transparent citizens and their CEOs know all this and go along with it for profit. And how people know all this and still use the services because they are forced to do so by peer and social pressure. So they continue to post their private details even after all these "secrets" have been revealed by the brave activists, who are of course assisted by a disgruntled former CEO come super hacker whose daughter was killed because she spoker her mind on social media. All of this is put in contrast to the beatiful, simple pleasures of real human interaction and a life outside the internet. Yawn. All of that background detail is common knowledge, but regardless, the same sermon is repeated in different words over and over again, long after the point has been made and even the most ignorant reader will have grasped it. This could have been a halfway decent book if the author had spent an equal amount of time developing his characters and the storyline instead of moralizing, But he didn't and so it isn't.

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