Bleak, heavy, alarmingly realistic end of the world. "After" depicts a time when all that connectivity has been taken away. The collapse in the book happened within their lifetimes, did they just suddenly forget everyone used to walk around 24/7 wearingInteresting premise but a weak book. About the Author Tim Maughan is an author, a journalist, and a features writer who uses both fiction and nonfiction to explore issues around cities, class, culture, globalization, technology, and the future. But this book fell more like a square wave of constant amplitude jumping back and forth with the two sides never growing closer. This book came in the mail today and I read the whole thing this afternoon, in about 3 hours, stopping only to make lunch. In Infinite Detail, he forces us to consider the inner workings of systems so ubiquitous that we can barely remember what it was like before we had them, let alone project what a future might be like without them. I don’t mean your home Wi-Fi shuts down for a few hours - I mean the Internet as we know it today crashes and burns.

"Infinite Detail" is about life without the internet.

Everyone is forced to ride I usually like dystopian future fiction, but this book was a little hard to get into. "Interesting premise but a weak book. About the Author Tim Maughan is an author, a journalist, and a features writer who uses both fiction and nonfiction to explore issues around cities, class, culture, globalization, technology, and the future.

The pivotal moment being an instantaneous catastrophic destruction of the internet.

Luckily, in his hands, the broad-stroke concept trickles down into weird and unexpected crevices: sage futurism, political treatise, and mournful meditation on the violence of technological dependency.” —

With Infinite Detail, Tim Maughan makes the hitherto-unimaginable come true: the End of the Internet, the End of the World as We Know It.

Commerce ends as we know it. Now the oppressive structures of global surveillance are dead - what now? With a “Before” and “After” book, one would expect that the alternating realities to oscillate back and forth until they met at the line of demarcation separating the two. This scenario immediately brings into sharp focus one of the deep ironies about technologies of any kind – the higher the percentage of people who use said technology, the lower the percentage of people who have any idea of how that technology actually works. Ten years in, it's become a center of creative counterculture. Ok, we get it, the internet abruptly went dark and bad stuff happened... now what? The character Rush was great and intriguing. Digital media no longer exists. In short, This book was pretty fascinating. I feel like reading the about the new technology was fascinating and believable, like I was reading about the actual future. Although to be precise this novel isn’t apocalypse by blackout so much as it is apocalypse by disconnect. With Infinite Detail, Tim Maughan makes the hitherto-unimaginable come true: the End of the Internet, the End of the World as We Know It. The “Before” takes place a few years into the future from now. But the book shows just how much we currently rely on technology and how bad life will become if we are forced to live without it. The formatting is part of the story and is just freaking beautiful. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. One of those infinite details we tend to take for granted on daily basis until it suddenly isn’t there. Rush is our present day guide, a cyberactivist whose arguments are quite convincing in a 2019 where we increasingly dread Google, Facebook, and smartphones. Dystopias let us genuinely analyze how shit things are now.What would you do if the Internet disappeared? His debut novel INFINITE DETAIL will be published by FSG in 2019. On balance the novel feels like a slam at those who wish to unplug: for being foolish at best, and deadly dangerous at worst.When's the last time you read dystopian sci-fi by a guy who loves drum & bass?When's the last time you read dystopian sci-fi by a guy who loves drum & bass?This was a doozy of a book to read on what turned out to be the longest blackout in recent past.