Ansibles, Profilers, and Other Machines of Ingenuity—Andrea Chapela

What will social networks and the devices we use to communicate and organize our lives be like in the future?

In this collection of short stories, Andrea Chapela masterfully narrates a future where a collection of artifacts such as sensory curtains, pings, ansibles, contact lenses, and profilers – many of them installed inside the human body – allow people to connect to a cloud, control their perceptions of reality, know the thoughts of others, share and “live” the experiences of others, as well as calculate the success of a romantic relationship or make calls that reproduce the physical presence of the interlocutors. Technology seems inseparable from the human experience, from its decision-making and daily tasks; however, the protagonists of these stories, far from having their lives figured out, face love, breakups, the complexity of their family relationships, and the search for their own identity while the boundaries of reality become increasingly blurred.

No. Pages: 216 / Dimensions: 21.5 cm (Height) x 14.7 cm (Width)