A Final Reminder

by Buzz McCord

Ethical clouds threaten Arctan International and billionaire founder Dr. Dirk Samuelson's newest achievement, an invention that can stop pandemics by tracking every person, every move, every breath. Under pressure from a new, more deadly virus, a team of Arctan elites is at work to create the ultimate, computer-connected, Augmented Human. Will they be done in time to help head off the pandemic? Blackmail, sex-slavery, abduction, murder. Will the power of Arctan be turned to evil? How far will either side go to win? Will the pandemic make it pointless? A Final Reminder describes a future coming soon to a reality near you. Ride with a rich cast of characters on a roller coaster of innovation, technology, despicable crime and thrills! Including the brain-machine interface, computer surveillance, sex-trafficking, Big Data, enterprise software, data analytics, space-based communications, international terrorism, Korean cuisine, the dive bar scene in Mission, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, pharmaceutical sleep learning, Polish soul food, hair-raising Ho Chi Minh City traffic, and motorcycle chases through Vietnamese sidewalk restaurants. When you’re not learning, you’ll be dodging bullets, lasers and humorous zingers.

272 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 8, 2020

Reviews

[Alicia Higa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was so entertaining and fun to read! Cool characters from all over the world (Haiti, Kenya, East Berlin, Korea and Tennessee), imaginative technology, snappy and witty dialogue, great comebacks, colorful locations from Silicon Valley, to the Mission area in San Francisco (seedy Zig's Bar) to the frentic streets of Ho Chi Minh City. Melding novel technology to create a computer Augmented Human implanted in one of the main characters Matt County, using micro lasers molded into contact lenses, shooting massive amounts of big data analytics creates a fascinating interplay between a human and a virtual machine. Besides this technology innovation feature, there is a new business model for prostitution and an assertion of how man's carnal urges are the basis of bad things which have happened in the world.

The author's background in medical lasers adds to this imaginative technology and many of the characters statements are well referenced which makes it interesting to turn to the endnotes to read.

Its hard to believe this is the author's first book but for sure, I look forward to whatever he writes next!