collapse pt 3

The next main character in collapse is billionaire Howard Beck, who even throught the economic hardships the book describes, still remains the richest man in the world. Although he is a super genius of einstien proportions he does have one flaw which is aspergers. This is very clearly shown in the first few pages of his portion of the story as his best friend is a computer he created. Though his aspergers limits how much emotion he feels or shows we do see some emotion when he mourns his late wife. Howard's great fortune has mostly come from his technology business known as Beck enterprises which is a global company that would equal companies such as google in the real world. Howard also design a computer so advanced that it has been qualified as artificial intelligence essentially meaning it can think and make decisions on its own.

 After being introduced to all of the characters the story rotates between it's many perspectives and shows how the characters grow as well as how they tie into each otherwe also see how the world the story has created changes first we see riots begin to happen in cities like Denver and in response there are more and more restrictions and even more deaths due to ambulances not being able to get to hospital fast enough also the empire of Iran also begins to grow and also improve their defenses and begin to attack the us and other countries.