The Light of Other Days tells the tale of what happens when a brilliant, driven industrialist harnesses quantum physics to enable people everywhere to see one another at all times: around every corner, through every wall, into everyone’s most private, hidden, and even intimate moments. This new technology amounts to the sudden and complete abolition of human privacy – forever.Then, as men and women scramble to absorb this shock, the same technology proves able to look backwards in time as well. Nothing can prepare us for what follows – the wholesale discovery of the truth about thousands of years of human history. Governments topple, religions fall, the entire edifice of human society is shaken to its roots. It is a fundamental change in the terms of the human condition … cause for despair, provocation for chaos, and – just maybe – opportunity for transcendence.
Weight | 0.6 kg |
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ISBN | 9780312871994 |
Publisher | Tor |
Publication Year | 2000 |
Pages | 316 |
Format | Hardcover |