The Useless

Summary

In 2053, in the fully automated city of New Geneva, artificial intelligence manages health, transport, welfare, memory routing, and civic life so completely that most people no longer notice what has been lost. Miriam Voss, a former welfare coordinator, receives an impossible message pointing back to March 14, 2031: the last human confirmation window for a system now governing millions. As she investigates Appendix C, she uncovers a hidden architecture beneath the official story, one designed not only to predict human action, but to redirect memory, thought, and intention before they fully form. The Useless is a philosophical dystopian science fiction novel about post-work society, surveillance, dependency, institutional legitimacy, and the human need to remain necessary to one another. It follows multiple lives across a managed world where comfort has replaced purpose, and where the most dangerous form of control is not open force, but seamless substitution.