The Passengers
Ratings83
Average rating3.9
I give this one a 3.5/5 because while it wasn't necessarily terrible, I wouldn't recommend anyone else to read it.
It tries to sort of explore the morality of self-driving cars (and who should die in case of an accident) but it felt fairly shallow. The main character gives fairly obvious arguments against the “evil” people who want autonomous cars to take over the road. I think at times the dialogue wasn't that great. The cringiest moment for me was when a social media expert walks into a courtroom and says:
“Nobody knows more about mass communication that I do. I know my machine learning from my micromoments; my conversions from my clickbait; my organic reach from my omni-channels and my big data from my business intelligence...” (He keeps going too!)
Like, who talks like that? Maybe it was on purpose to highlight how silly his character is but it just made me cringe, really.
Originally posted at www.emgoto.com.
I give this one a 3.5/5 because while it wasn't necessarily terrible, I wouldn't recommend anyone else to read it.
It tries to sort of explore the morality of self-driving cars (and who should die in case of an accident) but it felt fairly shallow. The main character gives fairly obvious arguments against the “evil” people who want autonomous cars to take over the road. I think at times the dialogue wasn't that great. The cringiest moment for me was when a social media expert walks into a courtroom and says:
“Nobody knows more about mass communication that I do. I know my machine learning from my micromoments; my conversions from my clickbait; my organic reach from my omni-channels and my big data from my business intelligence...” (He keeps going too!)
Like, who talks like that? Maybe it was on purpose to highlight how silly his character is but it just made me cringe, really.
Originally posted at www.emgoto.com.
