GARY SHTEYNGART’S novel of 2010, “Super Sad True Love Story”, is set in a
near future when the Chinese yuan is a global currency and people all
wear an “apparat” around their neck with RateMe Plus technology.
Personal details are displayed in public on ubiquitous Credit Poles,
posts on street corners with “little LED counters at eye level that
registered your Credit ranking as you walked by.”
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The novel is a fictional dystopia about the destruction of privacy.
China’s Communist Party may be on its way to inventing the real thing.
It is planning what it calls a “social-credit system”. This aims to
score not only the financial creditworthiness of citizens, as happens
everywhere, but also their social and possibly political behaviour.
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