Charlie Alice Raya
book 1, beginning
and drafting a town experiment
Alice Adler, a Berliner, sets out to convince the US billionaire Tom Holbon to build a town experiment.
The aim of the experiment is to rethink — well, everything.
Eventually Tom Holbon agrees to assemble a team of experts who compile a first draft for the town and for the experiments.
The experiments will help the teams to create an environment which will allow humans to thrive.
While the focus is initially on the neurological patient, and everything that is beneficial for the recovering brain, additional features gain importance, such as business ideas and business compositions, town layouts and architecture, ecology and agriculture, the role of arts & crafts in a vibrant town, digital approaches, special gardens such as the Senses Garden or the Challenge Garden, educational squares, work/life balance and job shaking and quite a bit more.
The characters bring their personal stories, and the occasional flare-up, clash and heartache are unavoidable.
Some of the other characters include: Jack, a famous actor, who struggles to find his place in the project. Andy, a talented but kind of insecure programmer, who is responsible for the simulations. And Andy’s two young colleagues Daria and Noel, who are their very own characters. Andy, Daria and Noel become anchors for Alice and are involved in some of the big secrets in the story.
While most of this story takes place at Tom’s estate, and some of it in New York, the team is international from the start, and the overall story connects to all corners of the planet.
‘About half an hour later, Alice fired the final punch, her hands hurting, her face burning. But she was feeling a little better.
Jack passed her a towel and a bottle of water.
‘How badly did I mess up?’ she asked, after emptying half the bottle.
Jack looked thoughtful. ‘That depends on whom you ask. Judging by some faces, I’d say quite badly. In my books, you didn’t mess up, as such.’
© Charlie Alice Raya, book 1, beginning
The playground
Book 1 is the first book of the easy town books.
While the book series tells the story of a town, and of the characters involved in creating, building and running it, the story also includes thought experiments.
In these thought experiments, the town serves as the playground, a playground where any question can be asked, and where any idea can be tested – all with the aim to find out what it is the human needs to thrive.
There was anger in Tom’s eyes when he said: ‘How is any of this going to end hunger, war, illness, injustice, fanaticism, terrorism, global warming?’
‘It’s half past nine. And that’s what you want to talk about now? All right. In short: With a single town we can help to rethink whatever needs rethinking. We can test ideas and deliver tangible and reproducible results. War, hunger, global warming and all the rest are consequences of inadequate practices. By tackling root problems in our town experiment, we might find adequate practices which in turn might influence all of the above positively.’
© Charlie Alice Raya, book 1, beginning
Preview
book 1, beginning, chapter 1
book 1, beginning
Alice Adler sets out to convince the US billionaire Tom Holbon to build a town experiment. The aim of the experiment is to rethink— well, everything.
Pages: 456 pages, 134k
Format: ePub
Price: €8.78 (incl. VAT)
ISBN 978-3-00-060915-2
Contents
Before
Week 1 — Settling in
Week 2 — Health & Care
Week 3 — Economics & Business
Week 4 — Ecology & Agriculture
Week 5 — Arts & Crafts
Week 6 — Admin & Society
Week 7 — Research & Education
Week 8 — Design
New York
The First Easy Town Conference
Back at Tom’s
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