![]() ![]() Mandala uses "counters" to secretly gather data on its users to map and predict their consumer behavior patterns. This sparks his new concept "Own Your Unconscious," a program that allows users to upload all of their memories to a shared network and, in return, gives them access to a collective database of users' lives. He attends a discussion group after a lecture from one of his biggest critics, anthropologist Miranda Kline, and learns about innovations in the field of digitizing memories and thoughts. The novel begins with Bix Bouton, a tech executive and founder of the company Mandala, who is searching for his next new idea and feeling stuck in a rut. The novel follows the intersecting lives of various characters in a series of stylistically diverse short stories as they engage with a future in which individuals can upload their consciousness to a digital cloud. The Candy House is a speculative fiction novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan, first published in 2022. ![]()
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