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Unplugged

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What would happen if the internet disappeared for thirty days? In Unplugged: What Happens When the Internet Dies for 30 Days, the collapse is not explosive. There are no monsters, no dramatic invasions, no clean apocalypse. Instead, there are missed messages, frozen bank accounts, paper maps, hospital charts, unpaid deliveries, silent phones, and people forced to remember how to live without being constantly connected. Told through five intimate, interconnected vignettes, this unsettling speculative fiction piece follows a teenager, a surgeon, a delivery driver, a day trader, and a grandmother as they move through a month-long digital blackout. Each character is stripped of a different illusion: attention, certainty, efficiency, control, memory. What they discover is not the end of civilization, but something more uncomfortable—the ordinary fragility that was already there. Literary, quiet, and disturbingly realistic, Unplugged explores what technology hides, what it preserves, and what remains when the systems we trust stop answering. Narrates by IA.
Author Dorian Frinch
Narrator Hale Bennett
Duration 49 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781432451301
Format Audiobook
Publisher Stream Readers
Genre Dystopian and utopian fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE, US

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