There is something more precious than fresh air, genuine love, clean water, or pure gold. It's called Big Data.
In this day and age it's become the new "blood diamonds" of the world. Information about your sexual preferences, how you vote, and what you're most likely to consume within the next six months are applications that barely scratch the surface of the resource's capabilities. Like any industry dealing with a precious resource too, it's becoming a more and more competitive market. Tech hubs, like Silicon Valley, have become boom towns in this fervent "gold rush" to mine Big Data. For laymen, and poverty strangled families, this all translates translates into one word: jobs.
Many "unemployed" workers are finding themselves starting new careers in data mining across the U.S. Especially those who've worked in other "mining" industries. For laid off coal miner and native Kentuckian, Jacob Crawly, this all just seems like "high brow" news until a rep from a tech start up called Sedaris approaches him.
They want to give him a job mining again.
Not much else is clear for Crawleys, but Sedaris knows he'd be a "great hire.". Having to move to California, sending money back home, the thirty year old father of two accepts the position. Soon though, he realizes the long hours, and mundane regiment of the job, are taxing. In what he believes are his dreams and fantasies, he longs for the touch of his wife and the small comforts of home.
Many questions linger for Crawley at the same time. What is his job exactly? What are his duties as: an employee, father, a husband, American, and decent man?
In an age of government leaks about public surveillance, a fifty year war on poverty (led by LBJ), privacy is nothing more than a fleeting fantasy. "Miner" is a dramatic, sci-fi story that will have you clicking the "next page" button up to the end.All Rights Reserved