Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: money would be better spent reading scientific american

This is a simplistic sci fi novel that is more concerned with punk than futurism. There is little original or thought provoking material past the one seminal idea that identity and fame are fast becoming comodities which are created and sold . The science is so uneven that people are still exchanging business cards - whereas if one even reads today's real science we have information being 'downloaded' through a handshake! And where there is a glimmer of futurism as with nano-technology being employed to continuously construct/repair buildings, the idea is just left underdeveloped. So much for expanding ideas.The characters are also poorly developed and seem to interact out of a need to fill the pages. Perhaps its a cult thing? But its not science fiction of wide interest