Wildcard is an intense follow up to last year’s Warcross and I can’t wait to see the internet unpack everything that is going on there. I love how Marie gave Emika the power she needed to become the woman she is at the end of the book. Also, the audiobook is fantastic, with a full array of emotions captured by narrator Nancy Wu. So let’s talk about how we go from now to Warcross, Wildcard, and Black Mirror…

4 Reasons the World We Live in Today Could Become the World of Warcross & Wildcard

1. Virtual Reality - We are living in a world where Facebook has 400 employees dedicated to VR technology, along with every major tech company in the world. It doesn’t seem unrealistic that the tech could become standard in every home.
2. Crime Detection - Minority Report was once just a movie but now it’s a legit thing (https://www.techemergence.com/ai-crime-prevention-5-current-applications/).
3. CEOs Playing Politics - Going to space sounded really cool until Elon Musk was discovered to have donated to the Republican Party (https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-political-donations-2018-7). It’s no secret or new thing to have the people with money controlling the political scene but it is something worth watching.
4. Separating the Mind from the Body - So yeah, earlier this year, a team of scientists at Yale revealed (https://thenextweb.com/science/2018/04/25/scientists-can-now-keep-brains-alive-without-body/) they were able to keep the brain of a pig going after it was out of body.