kongo.com: Four Related Stories

By Don Massenzio

Imagine a company so large that it touches the lives of the majority of citizens around the globe. Through seemingly unlimited resources, revolutionary technology, and a carefully crafted image of corporate philanthropy, kongo.com sets out to change the world while generating profits never before seen in business. In this speculative science fiction collection, Don Massenzio follows the reach of this behemoth corporation across four interconnected stories, each revealing how kongo.com's innovations promise to improve humanity-while quietly reshaping it in ways no one fully understands.

In No Pain, No Gain, an overweight woman desperate to change her life buys a popular Kongo-Fit wearable that eliminates pain and cravings, only to discover that the device is accelerating her body into something disturbingly inhuman. In BERTA, a brilliant AI researcher creates a near-sentient system capable of mapping human consciousness, then uses it to digitally recreate his dying wife, blurring the line between memory, identity, and artificial life. In The Breach, a cybersecurity consultant is brought in to investigate a massive data leak at kongo.com and uncovers evidence that the company's most valuable databases may be manipulating human behavior on a global scale.

The final story, The Rollout, shifts to kongo.com's humanitarian division, where experimental technology is deployed in developing nations under the banner of social good, quietly testing large-scale behavioral modification on entire populations. Taken together, kongo.com presents a chilling portrait of a near future where innovation and philanthropy mask unchecked corporate power, and where one company's vision of a better world is unleashed on humanity without its knowledge or consent. What could possibly go wrong? As these stories reveal, even the best intentions become dangerous when a single corporation is trusted not just with our data-but with our bodies, our memories, and our minds.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1798713926
• ISBN13: 9781798713921
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"