Flying cars and homes that mold to your liking and things like that.
It felt to me like the future as seen from 1960. That being said I wish the future was a bit stranger than it was. THE UNINCORPORATED MAN is about a man with a deadly disease is frozen in a cryogenic chamber hoping to be thawed when technology will save him. It didn’t feel odd for Justin to look around the world and wonder at the marvels the future holds and I was able to marvel with him. The read is nice and smooth and I liked the fact that we were seeing this future landscape through the eyes of a person from our time. Justin wanders into a strange land and meets various people who want to either help him or incorporate him into the system, an idea Justin equates with slavery. The book actually reads very similar to the first half of STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein ( Amazon), which is pretty high praise indeed. His very appearance shakes the foundations of this society and the book deals with the implications of his arrival. Justin Chord is thrown into this world as a person who owns 100% of his own personal stock–a thing unheard of. As the individual starts to work, the dream they all share is to one day own enough shares in themselves to become a majority shareholder–thus taking control of all of their own decisions. While they grow up, various shares are traded away for things like schooling and the government. Upon birth any individual born gives 20% of shares in themselves, to their parents. The main difference that the book illustrates is the concept of personal incorporation.
The man, Justin Chord, is forgotten for hundreds of years and is then awakened to a world similar to his own but different in many respects. A man with a deadly disease is frozen in a cryogenic chamber hoping to be thawed out in a time when technology will save him (kind of sounds like Futurama in a way doesn’t it?). THE UNINCORPORATED MAN ( Amazon) has a very simple premise that hooked me immediately. I then did the only sensible thing and I went home and ordered it off of Amazon. Nope, I was just at Barnes & Noble one day and thought I would check out what was new and what looked interesting–and there it was, calling to me.
It wasn’t recommended to me by a friend or any of that. I know, weird right? I didn’t see it on some blog, or see it in some random post from another site. I went to the bookstore and saw it on the shelf. I found this book in the most unusual way.
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