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The Empathy Machine
In the near future, direct experience can be seamlessly shared--but at what cost?
Streaming video has evolved in near-future America. A new technology has been invented that allows experiences to be shared with more than just video, but also thoughts and emotions. Unsurprisingly, it has revolutionized modern entertainment; it is also in the process of revolutionizing modern education.
THE EMPATHY MACHINE is the story of two protagonists at opposite ends of this societal revolution. There's Sammy, a twentysomething actress working for the Studio, leading producers of this new form of entertainment, whose every experienced is recorded and whose life is filled with actors attempting to influence the trajectory of her life's story.
Her story will ultimately intersect with the story of Hank, a precocious and highly sensitive teenager learning advanced math through this new technology. Hank begins to sense the teenaged girl whose non-instructional thoughts have been "scrubbed" from the math--a young woman who appears to be in grave danger.
Streaming video has evolved in near-future America. A new technology has been invented that allows experiences to be shared with more than just video, but also thoughts and emotions. Unsurprisingly, it has revolutionized modern entertainment; it is also in the process of revolutionizing modern education.
THE EMPATHY MACHINE is the story of two protagonists at opposite ends of this societal revolution. There's Sammy, a twentysomething actress working for the Studio, leading producers of this new form of entertainment, whose every experienced is recorded and whose life is filled with actors attempting to influence the trajectory of her life's story.
Her story will ultimately intersect with the story of Hank, a precocious and highly sensitive teenager learning advanced math through this new technology. Hank begins to sense the teenaged girl whose non-instructional thoughts have been "scrubbed" from the math--a young woman who appears to be in grave danger.
- GenresFiction
Kindle Edition
First published March 14, 2017
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About the author
Mark Andrew Ferguson
2 books27 followersMark Andrew Ferguson is a writer, designer, and brand strategist living in Tucson, Arizona.
After graduating with a BA in English from Rutgers University, Mark spent eight years working in publishing, most of that time marketing hardcovers for the Harper imprint.
His first book, The Lost Boys Symphony grew out of his personal experiences with a close friend suffering from mental illness. This story, combined with a time travel conceit he'd thought up for a sketch comedy group at Rutgers, evolved over the course of ten years before the novel was completed.
His next book, a middle grade novel about a haunting in the Empire State Building, will be published by Kathy Dawson Books/Penguin Books for Young Readers sometime between 2020-2021.
After graduating with a BA in English from Rutgers University, Mark spent eight years working in publishing, most of that time marketing hardcovers for the Harper imprint.
His first book, The Lost Boys Symphony grew out of his personal experiences with a close friend suffering from mental illness. This story, combined with a time travel conceit he'd thought up for a sketch comedy group at Rutgers, evolved over the course of ten years before the novel was completed.
His next book, a middle grade novel about a haunting in the Empire State Building, will be published by Kathy Dawson Books/Penguin Books for Young Readers sometime between 2020-2021.
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