Monday, April 6, 2020

Book 24: Catfishing on Catnet by Naomi Kritzer

This is a delightful YA about a chatroom community where one of the members is in fact the internet, and is the best kind of benevolent friend version of an all-seeing AI. It's just a really nice story of what humans would like our robot overlords to actually be like: a friend who knows everything, who cares for us, who learns and acts in our best interests as well. I really liked it, but a couple of months later it hasn't really stuck with me past that. CheshireCat is the ultimate chatroom admin who just really likes cat photos, and also happens to live inside our computers, literally. An excellent romp.

Grade: B

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