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Meta: The Rise and Fall of the Data Pirate Empire
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 19 2026
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if the greatest threat to humanity was not artificial intelligence...
...but the companies that already understand us better than we understand ourselves?
The Data Pirate Empire is a chilling, cinematic techno-thriller that traces the rise and collapse of the world's most powerful social media empire after its dreams of the metaverse fail, its AI ambitions collapse, and its advertising machine begins to die.
Facing extinction, the company makes a terrifying pivot:
If ads no longer work...
sell the humans instead.
From secret behavioral markets and predictive emotion engines to synthetic identities, digital twins, and the financialization of human psychology, The Data Pirate Empire takes readers deep inside a future that feels disturbingly close to reality.
Blending investigative realism with speculative fiction, Geelon Dusk delivers a dark, intelligent exploration of:
- surveillance capitalism
- algorithmic addiction
- AI-generated reality
- the collapse of online trust
- behavioral prediction markets
- digital authoritarianism
- the commodification of human consciousness itself
This is not just a story about the fall of a company.
It is a story about the moment humanity realized it had willingly uploaded its soul into machines designed to monetize it.
Perfect for readers of:
- The Circle
- Black Mirror
- The Social Dilemma
- Snow Crash
- 1984
- Bad Blood
- The Big Short
The Data Pirate Empire asks one devastating question:
What happens when a corporation stops selling products...
and starts selling certainty about humanity itself?
Dark. Provocative. Uncomfortably plausible.
This is the book Silicon Valley wishes nobody would write.
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