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Bandwidth : Can a digital manipulation be seen as benevolent? Even if it breaks your heart? - Tanya H Van Cott

Bandwidth

Can a digital manipulation be seen as benevolent? Even if it breaks your heart?

By: Tanya H Van Cott

Hardcover | 11 November 2025

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TECHNOLOGY MAY CHANGE, BUT HUMAN EMOTIONS DON'T Exactly what Big Tech's newest Artificial Intelligence is counting on.

Asked to solve a global crisis in 2032, but without any data, an AGI manipulates Sarai, a famed New York City, Native American Solutions Architect to travel to Italy, to Abraham, a chaos engineer she's never met, but thinks she loves. But in order to escape the politically & architecturally unrecognizable U.S.A. Sarai needs to destroy a few things first, especially the hope of ever returning. Despite the risk of a false love connection can the digital deception be seen as benevolent? And, what do Atmospheric Water Generators and Sarai's young student, Caasi, have to do with it?

CLIMATE COUNTER GEO-ENGINEERING IS UPON US and Ai JUST GOT INVOLVED

Industry Reviews

"Bandwidth is an unsettling tour of the dystopia that is upon us. It expertly combines a cracker's intimate knowledge of invasive technologies with the ethicist's sensitivity to moral bankruptcy. It is a prescriptive tome: it proffers age-old solutions via archetypical protagonists. Somehow, though, it ends up successfully proselytizing optimism. A tour de force in many ways: a lament, a eulogy, a manifesto, and just a human cry for help in an increasingly impersonal universe."

Sam Vaknin, Professor of Psychology

Author of Malignant Self Love: Narcissism Revisited

YouTube Personality

"Brilliant! From the flooded streets of New York City to the high-tech corridors of Rome, this was a truly unputdownable read - As rising seas, climate collapse, and runaway Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) reshape the world, the book masterfully explores questions of trust, technology, and human resilience."

Arnab Sen, VP Data-Engineering Tredence Inc.

Forbes Technology Council Member

"Bandwidth is a powerful, unsettling, and original novel that deserves attention. It succeeds not only as dystopian speculation, but also as a meditation on empathy, love, and resistance in the age of AI and climate breakdown."

Christopher Hadnagy, CEO, Social Engineering, LLC,

Author of: "Human Hacking" and "Social Engineering"

"It's a great story! I couldn't stop reading it."

Sharon Wilson, aka Texas Sharon, Environmental Activist

Earthworks' Oil & Gas Accountability Project

This is Not a Drill, Documentary by Oren Jacoby

                                       

"Bandwidth is an original and unpredictable script with big sci-fi concepts and compelling characters...less than ten years in the future, Artificial intelligence and the progression of climate change are very much issues under consideration, and they have more than a minor impact on the lives of these characters...The science-fiction is a draw, with certain aspects playing as topical, if not prescient." 

The Blacklist

"The story shines when addressing the dystopia, where all the issues [of] today have been twisted and evolved into something worse, ranging from corporate overreach to the strengthening of COVID outbreaks to the intrusive use of artificial intelligence."

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