The Flock: Can you hack someone’s mind? (2021)

The Flock (2021)

Genre: Sci-Fi, Cyberpunk, Cybernetic Terror, Dystopia

Plot: Michelle has strived all her life to be perfect, both in her professional and personal life, and she actually is, that is until she wakes up one morning just to realize that she forgot everything about the previous day as though it had not happened at all; all she knows about it is that she suffers random panic attacks after seeing… a pigeon? Why? What is the connection between pigeons and the day she erased from her memory? What is the connection between her memory and the ethereal digital space controlling everything in this world? What is the connection between all of them and that obscure organization named “The Flock” and the character they call “The Second Messiah”?

Are we protected from hackers just because we are organic?

Authors: Erick Schupnik, Juliana Cano, Juan Camilo Beltrán, Tomás Garzón, Santiago Martinez, Andrea Osorio, and David Jurok.

Back cover / blurb :

“Can you hack someone’s mind?

I know how silly it sounds… and I know how impenetrable we think we are, how safe, how clever with our made-up characters, putting out an act every single day of our lives to be what we are meant to be, what we are told we are…

But the world changed. Technology happened and we learned that we are nothing but organic pieces of data, programmed, set by default, and getting constant updates from the environment, acquiring more data by experiencing life, taking action, living through cause and consequence. But, does being organic actually protect us from being hacked?

I would have thought so… but then something happened, something I can’t even remember well, something or maybe nothing at all.

Panic’s coming again…

Why do I feel like I am not myself anymore?

Why can I see that woman over there, living through the body that is supposed to belong to me?

Since when did I become a viewer of my own life, a ghost haunting a person that is supposed to be me?

How could my body possibly learn to move by itself, to live by itself, to make its own choices?

Is she real?”