In the near future sci-fi world of Qualityland, algorithms help create an idyllic life for its citizens, but what if the perfect world wasn't built for you?Welcome to QualityLand, the best country on Earth. Here, a universal ranking system determines the social advantages and career opportunities of every member of society. An automated matchmaking service knows the best partners for everyone and helps with the break up when your ideal match (frequently) changes. And the foolproof algorithms of the biggest, most successful company in the world, TheShop, know what you want before you do and conveniently deliver to your doorstep before you even order it.In QualityCity, Peter Jobless is a machine scrapper who can't quite bring himself to destroy the imperfect machines sent his way, and has become the unwitting leader of a band of robotic misfits hidden in his home and workplace. One day, Peter receives a product from TheShop that he absolutely, positively knows he does not want, and which he decides, at great personal cost, to return. The only problem: doing so means proving the perfect algorithm of TheShop wrong, calling into question the very foundations of QualityLand itself.Qualityland, Marc-Uwe Kling's first book to be translated into English, is a brilliantly clever, illuminating satire in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and George Orwell that offers a visionary, frightening, and all-too funny glimpse at a near future we may be hurtling toward faster than it's at all comfortable to admit. So why delay any longer? TheShop already knows you're going to love this book. You may as well head to the cash register, crack the covers, and see why that is for yourself.
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Qualityland
von Marc-Uwe Kling
In the near future sci-fi world of Qualityland, algorithms help create an idyllic life for its citizens, but what if the perfect world wasn't built for you?Welcome to QualityLand, the best country on Earth. Here, a universal ranking system determines the social advantages and career opportunities of every member of society. An automated matchmaking service knows the best partners for everyone and helps with the break up when your ideal match (frequently) changes. And the foolproof algorithms of the biggest, most successful company in the world, TheShop, know what you want before you do and conveniently deliver to your doorstep before you even order it.In QualityCity, Peter Jobless is a machine scrapper who can't quite bring himself to destroy the imperfect machines sent his way, and has become the unwitting leader of a band of robotic misfits hidden in his home and workplace. One day, Peter receives a product from TheShop that he absolutely, positively knows he does not want, and which he decides, at great personal cost, to return. The only problem: doing so means proving the perfect algorithm of TheShop wrong, calling into question the very foundations of QualityLand itself.Qualityland, Marc-Uwe Kling's first book to be translated into English, is a brilliantly clever, illuminating satire in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and George Orwell that offers a visionary, frightening, and all-too funny glimpse at a near future we may be hurtling toward faster than it's at all comfortable to admit. So why delay any longer? TheShop already knows you're going to love this book. You may as well head to the cash register, crack the covers, and see why that is for yourself.
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Rezension von Emma4.5⭐️
Rezension von keni love a book that makes me think and QUALITYLAND sure made the brain churn. in this book, where the world is much like this one that we live in - dystopic and hellish - the crux of the matter is the freedoms we have as users of technology that purport to be objective. when truly, objectivity doesn’t exist, so long as the thing claimed to be objective is touched by biased human hands. and, the idea of algorithms that keep us chained to our past selves (i liked x and so i will likely enjoy other x-adjacent things). the insular bubble, the coziness of having your opinions reflected back to you as Truth or Fact are issues that are so present in today’s living that QUALITYLAND was difficult to read at times. but also it was good timing to be reading this. i experience discomfort at the workplace because i work with white, privileged, middle class people and when politics are discussed, it makes me queasy that some of them differ in political opinion from me. still on the fence whether that’s okay because hey, on one hand it’s reasonable to be against increase in property tax, but on the other, their stance on trans people can actually be life threatening. but. respect all political views, riiiight? (when i put it this way, maybe not) human growth and capacity for change is arguably a major part of being human! imagine if you, cringe as you are at fourteen, still enjoy the same old things at twenty four!!!! that’s repulsive to me!