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Life’s Little Emergencies
A handbook for active independent seniors and caregivers
First aid · Emergency response
Rod Brouhard / Books
Fiction shaped by real systems.
Thrillers about capable people, consequential choices, and the institutions and technologies surrounding them—alongside practical nonfiction drawn from the field.
Current fiction
Terminal
Autonomy
What if Uber ran the ambulance service—and used a Netflix-style algorithm to decide which 911 calls were worth a paramedic’s time?
Paramedic Ben Johnson trusts San Francisco’s gig EMS system until a canceled helicopter and a hospital twenty minutes out of the way leave two men dead. When he discovers the algorithm is optimizing something other than survival, he has to correct it before it kills him.
THE ALGORITHM ISN’T EVIL. IT’S INDIFFERENT.
Terminal Autonomy is speculative fiction set in 2049, but much of its technology is already here—or being built now.
The speculative question isn’t whether we can build it.
It’s what happens after we do.
Published nonfiction
Advice from the field.
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Preparedness · Response