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Infomocracy

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Infomocracy (2016), the first novel in Malka Older's Centennial Cycle, has struck readers as uncannily prescient in its exploration of information and elections in a world where “microdemocracies” with business, policy, or geographical focus have replaced traditional ideas of nations.  Amid promotion by "centenals" of voters, parties such as Heritage, Sony-Mitsubishi, 1China, the law-and-order Secure Nation, the anti-regulation Liberty, and the mostly virtuous party without a leader, Policy 1st, compete for Supermajority status in a near-future in which wars and unequal access to resources seem like a thing of the past. But more than the parties themselves, Information, a Google-like entity that provides access to digital information and seeks, Sisyphus-like, to protect it from disinformation, takes center stage as it nearly fails to administrate the third decennial election in the new world order. 

Excerpts, Infomocracy 

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