"Yellow"

Submitted by LT_Sargent on Mon, 01/30/2023 - 11:15
Title"Yellow"
Year for Search2022
AuthorsPladek, B[rittany]
Tertiary AuthorsPladek, B.
Secondary TitleSlate Future Tense
Date PublishedSeptember 24, 2022
KeywordsCanadian author, Female author, US author
Annotation

The story is set in a future United States that is no longer united but replaced by corporations. Lakes United is the Great Lakes area with competing consortia selling water to the West. Within that setting the story concerns an app SafeT that constantly evaluates an individuals health, the safety of their location, their route home, and so forth, rating each with a single number. A responding essay, “Can Your Health Be Boiled Down to a Single Number?” by Loren Helmchen, can be found at https://slate.com/technology/2022/09/health-care-risk-scores-insurance.html
URLhttps://slate.com/technology/2022/09/yellow-b-pladek.html
Info Notes

A responding essay, “Can Your Health Be Boiled Down to a Single Number?” by Loren Helmchen, can be found at https://slate.com/technology/2022/09/health-care-risk-scores-insurance.html
Illustration

Illus. Natalie Matthews-Ramo
Author Note

Pladek is an Associate Professor of English at Marquette University with a doctorate from the University of Toronto. Helmchen, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management in the Milken Institute School of Public Health at The George Washington University.
Full Text

2022 Pladek, B[rittany]. “Yellow.” Illus. Natalie Matthews-Ramo. Slate Future Tense (September 24, 2022). https://slate.com/technology/2022/09/yellow-b-pladek.html

The story is set in a future United States that is no longer united but replaced by corporations. Lakes United is the Great Lakes area with competing consortia selling water to the West. Within that setting the story concerns an app SafeT that constantly evaluates an individuals health, the safety of their location, their route home, and so forth, rating each with a single number. A responding essay, “Can Your Health Be Boiled Down to a Single Number?” by Loren Helmchen, can be found at https://slate.com/technology/2022/09/health-care-risk-scores-insurance.html. Pladek is an Associate Professor of English at Marquette University with a doctorate from the University of Toronto. Helmchen, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management in the Milken Institute School of Public Health at The George Washington University.