Stuff like that belongs at the end, so we can skip ahead to the next podcast with a single button press. Very important if you listen while driving, as I do.
if you aren't careful they'll implant you for multimedia-usage-while driving!
I enjoyed the lead-up to the main plot catch, and the questionable means considered of ridding said catch from one's cranium, but found serious holes elsewhere.
Jenny's father seemed to be a walking PSA for speed regulations- well, ok, if he would agree to have his memories shared he must feel pretty much along the government line anyway.
All the same, my suspension-of-disbelief was, er, suspended when the conflict between the two men at the gravesite carried on.
Allowing that jenny's father was selected, or volunteered, to have fragments of his daughter scattered like ashes to the cerebrally implanted winds, he should have had some government training on how to deal with potential approaches from people with these implanted memories. Either they don't have the tech to implant fake memories without the brain realizing it - i.e. a fully fictionalized jenny is killed or a simple names-changed-for-privacy version of the story is implanted- or they opted to not use fake memories strictly so that there would be a real person somewhere out there you could meet and feel incredibly guilty and ashamed about having met. Either way, the odds of someone along the line meeting the memory host for their implant had to be incredibly high, so in true bureaucratic fashion there should have been a training seminar somewhere. i can excuse a grieving father at his daughter's grave [on her birthday with a dancing interactive holographic representation no less] of many things, but it briefly cut off the flow of the story universe when he didn't, say, angrily squash a folded business card for a support group of jenny-killers into main character guy's temple before banishing him.
Isn't driving obnoxiously slowly also against the law?
Doesn't main character have something akin to a parole officer to talk to? I wouldn't need to be in-depth or lengthy or even useful to the main character, but that the option was left unexplored while black-market hackers were leaves me questioning the morality of a character who is otherwise made out to be your usual generally-good-with-heroic-faults everyman.
In a society where the technology and capacity to install mental implants reprimanding speeders exists, why can't they just install context-sensitive speed limiters in all the country's cars?