Value
By Dr. James John
The book follows the lives of Alice and Job as they migrate from India to the US to pursue higher education, unaware their daughter Hope will witness humanity’s exponential leap. Their daughter hope will be born next year (2025).
About the Author
Dr. James John
Dr. James John, a Bangalore-based doctor and lifelong bibliophile with a passion for science fiction and thought-provoking ideas, infuses his debut novel, Value, with his belief in humanity’s potential for positive collaboration with AI. Motivated by a desire to inspire hope for the future, the Author invites readers to consider our future at a planetary scale, emphasizing the importance of global unity.
Beyond this fictional world, Dr. James expresses his deep appreciation to friends, family, and the ever-expanding wellspring of scientific and philosophical knowledge that fuelled his imagination and brought the novel to life.
About the book
Value
The book follows the lives of Alice and Job as they migrate from India to the US to pursue higher education, unaware their daughter Hope will witness humanity’s exponential leap. Their daughter hope will be born next year (2025).
The story starts when Hope is ten-years-old, in the year 2035 and ends when she is 44(2070), in colony on Mars called Orion 1. The book is an extension of current technologies till the point Hope and her husband Jim Board the starship Odyssey for their journey to Orion 1, the metropolis on Mars. As they board Odyssey, they experience the exponential leap, where technology becomes like magic and can play with all five human senses.
The message in the book is that Humanity is at a critical junction, where it needs to think as one, at a planetary level. The arrival of a superintelligence allows humans to achieve this objective in this book. If humanity can pull this off and avoid the harmful side of exponential technology, then our descendants will enter an age of abundance.
They will live longer and healthier. They will be able to experience worlds restricted only by their imagination. Climate change is a constant hum in the background. The book also looks at climate change through the eyes of Hope’s 15-year-old daughter Bhavishya, who struggles to understand why her ancestors could not preserve her beautiful blue planet.
Other Details
Total Pages
218 Pages
Publication Date
10th June 2024
Publisher
Reading Age
13 years and up
