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Virtually Yours, Jonathan Newman
"It's been nineteen years since the Freedom First Party swept Democrats and Republicans from power in an American election that shocked the world. A new libertarian social order has radically transformed every facet of American life. Government departments, regulations, and programs are gone; free markets rule. With quality medical care now beyond the reach of all but a fortunate few, musician Jonathan Newman must find a way to pay his gravely ill son's hospital bills. In desperation he takes a sales job with QualLab, a global medical supply company. Once there, a web of wires, tubes, and sensors connect his naked body to a table in a secluded cell where he works twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, selling bio-laboratory tests made from human fluids and tissues--his."--Page 4 of cover.
Virtually Yours
Sarah Sharpe leads a normal life. When she volunteers for a study at the local college, all that changes. She is given special glasses which enable her to enter the scene of her choice in a Virtual World. Exploring the Virtual World is great. But there's a catch. A striking, male catch. Blake Canfield. He assures Sarah he's self-aware and explains he will be her guide. Sarah is unsure at first, but she quickly grows to enjoy his company. Too much. She soon finds herself falling for essentially a figment of her imagination. How perfect can one relationship be? No strings. Low-maintenance. But it's not perfect. It's the hardest relationship Sarah's ever been in. Because when she turns the glasses back into the college in three months, Blake will be gone. Forever. And so will Sarah's heart.
Virtually You
Author: Elias Aboujaoude
language: en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date: 2011-02-07
"Instantly engaging and eminently accessible . . . . an enlightening and cautionary exploration of an increasingly intrusive aspect of modern society." —Booklist While the Internet can enhance well-being, Elias Aboujaoude has spent years treating patients whose lives have been profoundly disturbed by it. Part of the danger lies in how the Internet allows us to act with exaggerated confidence, sexiness, and charisma. Aboujaoude dubs this new self our “e-personality” and argues that its traits are too potent to be confined online. Offline, too, we’re becoming impatient, unfocused, and urge-driven. Virtually You draws from Aboujaoude’s personal and professional experience to highlight this new phenomenon. The first scrutiny of the virtual world’s transformative power on our psychology, Virtually You demonstrates how real life is being reconfigured in the image of a chat room, and how our identity increasingly resembles that of our avatar.