Carmichael Library Sci-Fi (Virtual) Book Club discussion

Read through Chapter 32? Discuss it here.

Wish we could meet in person to discuss this. The village dynamics is so interesting. At the beginning it just seems normal, everyone doing their job and helping out the community but then you realize that is not the case. Not only do the tech users live in a different area, they are excused from tasks (excuse is they have to practice their tech use). And they have rigged the test so only their children can pass. At first I was thinking about power corrupting but this is almost a master/slave society or at least lords/serf or knights/peasants. Love Monono. How can she connect to the internet?

Satellite?

I at first thought master/slave but later realized that with this have and have nots - the haves could be a lot more dictatorial and not even give the appearance of working for the town but just take over completely and make all decisions. Yes, unfair about them giving their children an advantage but it seems some of the tech people are pretty bad so maybe to appease them and keep everything running semi-well? I read too much dystopian with torture, etc. so this doesn't seem so bad.

I definitely had expected Koli's lot to improve when he figured out how to operate the DreamSleeve (even though I'm not sure what "practical" purpose it could serve.) Instead, we find about the Rampart corruption. It seems that maybe Ursala had been onto it for a while and that she was trying to even things out by telling Koli how various tech can be turned on. (I still wonder what the heck the tech is that she uses. It sounds so exotic that I don't think we have our own real world analogue.)