Laila Lalami's novel, The Dream Hotel, explores a chilling future where a company named Dreamcloud employs brain implants to enhance sleep while exploiting dream data. The protagonist, Sara Hussein, is unjustly detained at LAX after being flagged as a risk based on her dreams and online activity. This assessment by the mysterious Risk Assessment Administration results in her incarceration in a private retention center, managed by Safe-X, where detained individuals are used as cheap labor. This narrative taps into the theme of societal control and the ethical implications of predictive algorithms, evoking comparisons to Philip K. Dick's The Minority Report.
Whatever the cause, Sara now finds herself incarcerated in the California desert because an algorithm has determined she's an imminent risk.
In this unsettling vision of the future, a company called Dreamcloud makes brain implants that give insomniacs like Sara a better night's rest while also harvesting valuable data from their dreams.
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