
In our rapidly changing world of social media, everyday people are more and more able to sort themselves into affinity groups based on finer and finer criteria. In the near future of Robert Charles Wilson's The Affinities, this process is supercharged by new analytic...


In our rapidly-changing world of "social media", everyday people are more and more able to sort themselves into social groups based on finer and finer criteria. In the near future of Robert Charles Wilson's The Affinities, this process is supercharged by new analytic technologies--genetic,...

In the near future of Robert Charles Wilson's The Affinities , new analytic technologies-genetic, brain-mapping, and behavioral-have supercharged social media's process of sorting people into fine-tuned affinity groups. To join one of the twenty-two Affinities is to change one's...