Lives untangled: Exploring identity, secrecy, & technology.
If you're fascinated by the mysterious lives of real individuals and the secrets they hold, "The Secret Life - Three True Stories" is a captivating read. Andrew O'Hagan takes you on a thought-provoking journey, delving into the tangled webs of Julian Assange, Craig Wright, and Ronald Pinn. With a skillful blend of storytelling and analysis, O'Hagan explores the complexities of identity, secrecy, and the intricate relationship between individuals, the state, and technology. This book will leave you questioning the boundaries of truth and the power of technology in our lives.
ISBN: 9780571335855
Authors:
Andrew O'Hagan
Publisher: Faber
Date of Publication: 2017-07-01
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.67
(rated by 632 readers)
Description
Examining three lives - Julian Assange, Craig Wright, the Australian behind the Bitcoin inventor 'Satoshi Nakamoto', and Ronald Pinn, an online character O'Hagan created - he explores identity, secrecy, and the relationship between the individual, the state, and technology.The slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for identities: true, false, and in between. We no longer question the reality of online experiences but the reality of selfhood in the digital age.In The Secret Life: Three True Stories, Andrew O'Hagan issues three bulletins from the porous border between cyberspace and the 'real world'.'Ghosting' introduces us to the beguiling and divisive Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, whose autobiography the author agrees to ghostwrite with unforeseen-and unforgettable-consequences.'The Invention of Ronnie Pinn' finds the author using the actual identity of a deceased young man to construct an entirely new one in cyberspace, leading him on a journey into the deep web's darkest realms.And 'The Satoshi Affair' chronicles the strange case of Craig Wright, the Australian web developer who may or may not be the mysterious inventor of Bitcoin, and who may or may not be willing, or even able, to reveal the truth.What does it mean when your very sense of self becomes, to borrow a phrase from the tech world, 'disrupted'? Perhaps it takes a novelist, an inventor of selves, armed with the tools of a trenchant reporter, to find an answer.
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