
Responding To The World with Jennifer Egan, Gary Shteyngart, Sequoia Nagamatsu and Ali Smith
The Waterstones Podcast
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What's the Allure of Your Unconscious?
The technology is a means by which people can essentially down load unconscious memories so that they can see with the same clarity as we would on the t v. And therefore you can then access what else is there, which seems to me to be a rather brilliant metaphor for just the interlect that we all know and love. So i guess i just wanted to sort of get into that kind of transaction and and follow all its ramifications in people's lives in ways that seemed appealing and fun. I'm never interested in just a kind of am, you know, a work of fiction that's full of dread and warnings.
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