Immortal Life: A Soon To Be True Story Hardcover – December 5, 2017

Love to read these dystopian perspectives of the near future. In this instance, the reader follows two basic tracks: one, that concerns the technologies geared toward and ever increasing lifespans approaching the sine qua non - immortality; the other, the monopolized technology platforms like face, amazon, & google. The author sarcastically fashions these technological revolutions to the visons of capitalist that are ignorantly blind to the changes being wrought. It is really quite a brilliant coupling; when one considers those business models are engineered to get into our heads and harvest our attention.The protagonist, Gene, who has been ingeniously engineered, wonders what he's is supposed to be doing/You're supposed to be sacrificing yourself to one of the gross narcissists who run the atavistic corporate state in his obsessive search for eternal life. The author uses character's dialogues to great effect.Arthur Vogel is the 127 year old trillionaire that owns Gene and is trying too see if this rendition will be his new body to carry on his conquest of the business world at large and in his quest for immortality.Against this dystopian corporatism of the future lurks both the most significant communication issue of our time; and indeed of Gene's time, creating a system in the digital era sufficient for credible self-governance.For in this dystopian future, as one the character's flat-out states/You don't even know half the things they have in mind to use you to enslave the human race. And, indeed in that future, as now; there is a race between humanity in inhumanity, a race that is not only a matter of life & death, but a matter of the nature of life itself!.The first half moves along quite well; but then slows done after pat one. It does pick right back up again towards the climax

Technology is a wonderful thing and we can not get along without it.But if the future develops the way this book describes....we are all in trouble. A very scary ride indeed!!

It seemed Stanley Bing (and his editor) invested quality time, in the first 2/3 of the book, describing a future where technology is embedded in everything we do even our bodies. Quite interesting.The final 1/3 of the book was a rambling wreck.I sense if Immortal Life is made into a movie, the movie will be BETTER than the book.

First 2/3, very good; last 1/3, preposterous, poorly written caricatures of characters. Barely made it through to the end, which was too bad, because it had some great, disturbing elements through-out the first sections that I found fascinating.

Very well written, and absolutely mind blowing.

I do not understand why this book has so many negative reviews. I thoroughly enjoyed it and I'd like to see a prequel leading up to what happened in this book. I found it very entertaining and disturbing on so many levels. The core of this book is about our growing dependence on technology and our inability to keep companions from buying up other businesses in order to create a mega company that controls much of the population. If you have only a few huge corporations in the world then your dependence on them is assured. They have what you need to survive so you'll allow them to do anything they want.Okay, on to the story. There are two main characters in this book, Gene and Arthur, who live in a time about fifty years from now. Gene is a young man and Arthur is 127 years old. Our life spans have grown but in order to attain that great age your entire body pretty much falls apart and you become a tiny, weak version of yourself. This infuriates the powerful megalomaniac Arthur so he starts funding research into 3D printing human bodies from DNA and putting the consciousness of another person in it. Gene is the first successful clone but he isn’t going to ride off in to the sunset with Arthur at the helm without a fight.
The secondary characters are fun and play important roles in this new world with a large portion of the world is controlled by computer implants in their skull. Others have ditched technology and live in a world that is more simple but satisfying.This book is a terrifying look into the future because the author did his own research and much of what is in this book is already in motion. Humans need to decide if their growing dependence on technology is what thew world really needs.