Panopticon Book

My review is not descriptive of the plot but hopefully a reflection of the thought that the author is trying to provoke through a clever entanglement of interelated stories involving the characters. If you want a book that causes you to think while you are reading and after you are reading, this is it. This is in the category of a complex read. The author develops a world of constant recording of images with video cameras everywhere including your laptops. Images and clips are recorded constantly and are readily found through multi-faceted search tools. YouTube to the extreme. Strangers are able to view your most private moments and know your life as well as you. Additionally, people are able to edit and recast these images and some do as a precoccupation in the book. Like dreaming,the world as it has been recorded becomes a different reality. Sorting out the factual memory from the dream memory from the edited imagery (virtual memory) leads to the complexity in the book. Just as dreams can sometimes seem so real, could we ever get to a point where edited video images could cause us to question our memory of past events. Today, people struggle with how much their privacy is being invaded by the written word in Facebook, Twitter and the like when many users don't even know to whom they are divulging information. With cams becoming prolific on laptops, cell phones, could our images and recordings become extremely easy to collect without our knowledge or permission?
Food for thought?