DIGIT

Weisser, Michael. DIGIT. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1983.

Shows "homo digitalis" in an ambiguous "computerized utopia, in which a team of creative thinkers is isolated on an island in an artificial environment" and challenged to come up with a way to "enable the planet-wide security system to transcend its inherent limitations"—as part of a scheme by "the machine" to trap the society's few remaining dissenters. Rev. Helmut W. Pesch, SF&FBR #18 (Oct. 1983): 47, source for this entry, and quote. Cf. and contrast F. Herbert's Destination: Void (cited under Fiction); Frederik Pohl's "The Gold at the Starbow's End" (Analog 1972), coll. The Gold at Starbow's End (1972), expanded into Starburst (1982); and Thomas M. Disch's Camp Concentration (1968).