And even Miri, in her attempts to protect her grandfather, may be entangled in the plot. This conspiracy is something that baffles even the most sophisticated security analysts, including Robert’s son and daughter-in law, two top people in the U.S. When Robert begins to re-train at Fairmont High he unwittingly becomes part of a wide-ranging conspiracy to use technology as a tool for world domination. But the consensus reality of the digital world is available only if, like his thirteen-year-old granddaughter Miri, you know how to wear your wireless access and to see the digital context-through smart contact lenses. Living with his son’s family, he has no choice but to learn how to cope with a new information age in which the virtual and the real are a seamless continuum. He is seventy-five years old, though by a medical miracle he looks much younger, and he’s starting over, for the first time unsure of his poetic gifts. The book tells the story of Robert Gu, a mean, old man and a famous poet. Now, as he regains his faculties through a new cure, he discovers that the world has changed. Rainbows End by Vernon Vinge is a science fiction novel set in San Diego in 2025. The world that he remembers was much as we know it today. Robert Gu is a world-renowned poet and recovering Alzheimer's patient.
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