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<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cA Final Reminder\u201d walks the line between literary fiction and international intrigue. It transports readers to a near-future world where Dr. Dirk Samuelson, a San Francisco entrepreneur and founder of tech-conglomerate, Arctan International, has invented software that can stop any pandemic by tracking every person\u2019s movement and behaviors. He controls global data with formidable technical and economic barriers including 64-Qubit computers, space-based data-banking and lofty politicians.<\/p>\n
McCord takes us to a still-hopeful world of bioluminescent hairdos and augmented human intelligence. Its scarred by recurring pandemics and burdened with ubiquitous ultraviolet sterilization and government-mandated instant pathogen detector machines.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf history has taught us anything, it\u2019s that there will be another deadly global pandemic,\u201d said Bill Gates in his Shattuck Lecture, Boston, April 2018.<\/p>\n
McCord adds, \u201cScience has warned that viral scourges will repeat and get worse. We should be deeply alarmed, maybe systemically fearful.\u201d<\/p>\n
In real life, Samuelson\u2019s software, Exoculation, is being studied by Shin Bet and MIT. Apple and Google recently announced that cellphones are already used to trace individual personal contacts.<\/p>\n
Big Brother is here. So, what\u2019s next? McCord takes a stab at interpreting a picture of what\u2019s to come.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to capture amazing technologies as well as an optimistic near-future, where talented people will be the empowered \u2018international currency,\u2019\u201d he says. \u201cIn my novel, society reacts to the catastrophic death tolls of recurring pandemics with what I call the \u2018Roaring Twenty-Twenties.\u2019 And, women in \u2018A Final Reminder\u2019 are supremely confident in their professional abilities \u2013 business, neurobiology, assassination \u2013 as well as their sexual selves.\u201d<\/p>\n
Further threats arise from nearly a half billion \u201cexcess\u201d human males.<\/p>\n
McCord says, \u201cThe good guys in \u2018A Final Reminder\u2019 are forced to deal with this, but the solution is very ugly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA Final Reminder\u201d describes a future coming soon to a reality near you.<\/p>\n
About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n Buzz McCord is a tech-preneur and professor. \u201cA Final Reminder\u201d grew out of his career in international science, invention and teaching. A lifetime traveler, he prepped two years for the book in Albania, Norway, Korea, Tokyo and Kamchatka. He was chased in 2020 by the freshly emerging SARS-CoV-2 from Hong Kong through Cambodia into Vietnam. He\u2019s an award-winning documentary filmmaker.<\/p>\n McCord lives with his wife in Southern California. His favorite place to write is the lifeguard tower RJ near the river jetty on cold and windy days.<\/p>\n For more information about the author and novel visit: https:\/\/www.buzzmccord.com<\/a><\/p>\n For more information about the book: https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B08NZ3NW3Q<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cA Final Reminder is available on Amazon, Apple, Barnes and Noble and through other independents.<\/p>\n MULTIMEDIA:<\/p>\n
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