6/21/2023 0 Comments Eggers dave the circle![]() ![]() Customers grade Mae and her co-workers in “CE” in real-time, on a scale of 1 to 100, and these scores are public throughout the Circle. The Circle follows 24-year-old Mae Holland, a graduate of Minnesota’s elite Carleton College, who lands a job at the “most influential company in the world” thanks to her old roommate and friend, Annie – an influential Circler in the company’s elite “Gang of 40.” Mae’s career at the Circle starts in the lowly Customer Experience department, where she is tasked with answering advertiser queries. ![]() And, through this corporate consumption, the Circle has gobbled up all of us, along with its competitors. Instead, the Circle is a mega-corporation that has, in the near-future world of The Circle, devoured all of the above – it is not one of these companies, but all of them. ![]() It’s not, Eggers claims – though that’s all but impossible to believe, given the similarities. Nobody could blame you for thinking that the Circle in Dave Eggers’ new novel is just another name for Google – or Apple, Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. ![]()
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