NOW YOU CAN BEAM A HOLOGRAM OF YOURSELF TO SOMEONE ELSE, NO R2D2 NEEDED

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2. Sarah Pinsker -- A Song for a New Day

Rosemary Laws barely remembers the Before times. She spends her days in Hoodspace, helping customers order all of their goods online for drone delivery—no physical contact with humans needed. By lucky chance, she finds a new job and a new calling: discover amazing musicians and bring their concerts to everyone via virtual reality...

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https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/598452/a-song-for-a-new-day-by-sarah-pinsker/9781984802583/

Pinsker wrote this book before covid-19

"I was kind of looking forward to getting the story out of my head, and now we’re living in it," Pinsker laments to Marie Claire with a weary laugh. Her pages detail eerily accurate isolation booths in restaurants, contactless delivery, virtual gatherings, and WFH bedroom-offices. Still, Pinsker doesn’t think of herself as a prophet. "Everything that’s in there is stuff that could logically happen," she says while sheltering-in-place in her hometown of Baltimore. "I just accept it as the risk of writing about the near-future: You can sometimes get lapped by the actual future."

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https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/a32632422/sarah-pinsker-song-for-a-new-day-book-predicted-pandemic/