I saw this book recommended on a top ten list somewhere so I asked my library to get it. Tim Maughan's "Infinite Detail" is a dystopian vision that, of all things, lacks detail.The book chapters alternate between before and after a catastrophic network virus attack that bricks every network attached device in the connected world. Maughan's after is a world in turmoil and collapse of society.
My main problem is that I remember a time before the internet and connected systems and, guess what, everything worked and civilization flourished. Would there be chaos after such a network disaster? Yes. Would it last long and result in social collapse? No. I found this premise to not be realistic.
There also was very little conflict in the book. It was just like a day in the life story and it was hard to get into the story without some conflict.
I gave this book three stars out of five on Goodreads. It missed in a few ways for me.
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