Samaritan app

The Samaritan is an app that serves as a symbol of the heightened surveillance state of Delaney’s world. The app allows people to record and post anti-social behaviors to shame others. Delaney is “shammed” for dropping a candy bar wrapper on the subway platform and is not given even a moment to pick up the trash. The app encourages citizens to believe the worst about those in their community and turn to blame them as quickly as possible.

OwnSelf

OwnSelf is representative of the technology dependence among workers of the Every and the message they are spreading to the larger society around them. Kiki, for example, outsources her decisions on when and how to exercise as well as what to eat to the app. She is fooled into believing that all of the extraneous information the app relays back to her improves her quality...