When an antimonopoly, anti-Every presidential candidate visits the company, he’s greeted by hordes of employees wearing skintight bodysuits that leave nothing to the imagination.

But Lycra is what finally destroys political resistance to the Every, the largest tech company on the planet.

Oh, sure, algorithms fire employees and judge the aesthetic value of art, and people film others performing the smallest transgressions to be factored into “Shame Aggregate” scores. GradeSaver, 7 November 2015 Web.In the near-future tech dystopia of Dave Eggers’s nightmares, everyone wears Lycra. Next Section Character List Previous Section About The Circle Buy Study Guide How To Cite in MLA Format Cohen, Maddy. Meanwhile, government officials and then more and more people are pressured to give up their privacy to go transparent so that the rest of the world can keep tabs on their morals. She becomes world-famous, rejects Kalden's concerns, loses her identity, and essentially becomes a cyborg. After Mae is caught illegally kayaking at night, she goes through a session of public shaming in front of the whole company and thus accepts a role as the primary 'transparent' face of the Circle. She also becomes romantically involved with two men, an awkward coworker named Francis and a mysterious man who calls himself 'Kalden.' Kalden warns her of the dangers of 'completing' the Circle, that is, making everything known to everyone so superficially and with so little respect for the individual. Mae begins work in Customer Experience and initially is concerned about her privacy, but she quickly rises in the ranks, gaining access to more screens of information (some of which she wears) and getting sucked into the arguments for full transparency, while her parents and ex-boyfriend Mercer grow increasingly horrified by the new rejection of private spaces and off-the-grid anonymity.

Cameras are everywhere, biological functions are monitored wirelessly, and the Circle adds more and more to its network. The company uses technological innovation to create what it claims is a more efficient and accountable society, especially by increasing transparency in government, business, and even personal lives. The Circle, created by three 'Wise Men,' combines all of one's online interactions (social media and other business and personal communication, medical information, everything) into a single online identity called a TruYou, and has been growing to contain virtually all the other information that exists across the world. Mae Holland has landed a job at the Circle, “the most influential company in the world,” with help from her college friend Annie.

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