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Manna by Marshall Brain
1.0

Started out as a sort of thought experiment but devolved into unrealistic utopian fantasy schlock. Am I really supposed to believe that some dude got picked due to capitalistic stock exchanges by his parents (without knowing that somehow said stock had been passed to him, and him not noting at all that his parents were gone)? Or that Australia has the capacity to support a population of one billion without restraints, everything fully renewable, and that people will just go along with this draconian, yet utopian ideal society?

Started out interesting and could have been a decent view of potential futures of automation but the author decided a cudgel was more valuable than a scalpel. I read it so you don't have to; pass on this.