“New technology is not good or evil in and of itself,” he says. He says science fiction tends to be too bleak, often failing to recognize positive trends. The book presents a future that’s grim in many ways, but Wong tried hard not to write a dystopia. “I don’t want any Gamergaters to say, ‘Oh, so you’re comparing us to a supervillain who mutilates people?'” Wong says. Wong says those chapters were written long before Gamergate, and were in no way inspired by Quinn. The book’s protagonist is also named Zoe, also dyes her hair blue, and also becomes the focus of an online lynch mob. The novel has some eerie parallels to the story of Zoe Quinn. “If it’s interesting, we’re going to watch.”
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“If you were a serial killer who likes to live-stream his victims, you would very much find an audience of people watching you do it,” says Wong. The book opens with a murderer attempting to orchestrate his next kill so as to maximize his live audience, a development Wong finds all too plausible given that a real-life killer recently posted video of himself opening fire on a TV news crew. “Everybody is streaming everything they say and do all the time.” “It’s the ultimate social network,” says Wong. Any event, whether it’s a celebrity eating breakfast or a gang shootout, can be viewed live from whichever camera has the best view. His book imagines a hyper-charged social network called Blink, which consists of millions of networked livestreams. Wong, who now serves as executive editor of, also thinks new technology will give a giant boost to social media.
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