Meredith: The Future of Silicon Valley

by David Oliver Doswell

Competent computer hacker, Meredith Sandoval, lives in the conservative Hayes Valley, San Francisco, California section, in the year 2139. Despite having been born in utopian The North American Middle-Class State, she spends most of her days breaking and building computer programs for cryptocurrency. She does so to pay for her father’s costly medical treatments at New California Advanced Medical Institute 12. That is, when she is not passing the time in Old California with her best friend, ingenious and reckless computer hacker, Trenneka Kay. While infectious diseases have been eradicated as early as 2070, Meredith’s father was born with a phenomenal neurological disorder and has six years to live. The disease is potentially treatable. But Meredith is a citizen of an Earth divided into three databases that have replaced nation states. Her citizenship in the database The North American Middle-Class State, called “Middle State,” heavily regulates experimentation to preserve its high quality of life. Meredith has fewer than six years to hope New California will develop, test, regulate, and distribute, a breakthrough technology for citizens of her database to use—or find some way to upgrade her and her father's citizenship illegally to save him.

256 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 5, 2020

Reviews

[Billy Young · Rating 4 out of 5]

Broad City meets Mr. Robot in the year 2139. A techno-optimist imagining of a world run on the blockchain and AGI, within a new world order following the crumbling of the old (21st century) systems.

The story blazes by enjoyably in its entirety with a colourful cast and high-stakes action (though the transitions between plot points can sometimes be a bit terse). In fact, the story is more like a snapshot of life in the 22nd century, lightly touching on different ways that life is changed 100 years into the future (e.g. government, infrastructure, medicine, biohacking).

[Ragini Inda · Rating 2 out of 5]

A sci fi work,language is the point where I lost my command on the story.So many technical term used hard to digest those words...
Kind of relate to the robotic world shown in the story by next 50 to 100 years.. cosmetic surgery and the monopoly of computers..
But not my cup of tea,I enjoy love saga more then this but those who love utopian work n language can definitely relate to this .

[Jeff Duda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not particularly well written for a general audience. If you're not already versed in the lingo of software design or computer science, you will struggle to follow along with parts of the story.