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I found Anathem really unbelievable with the deepest Maths like the Millennials - human social structures & network effects do not work that way! Make a 100 Millennials, and if you're lucky, they'll all just be utterly stagnant, having gotten lost in one cul-de-sac. (If you're unlucky, they'll all be dead due to cold or bad social dynamic or something. If you're really unlucky, they'll turn into a warrior cult that slaughters everyone near them.)
I'd gotten about a third of the way through Anathem when the person who lent it to me asked me how I was liking it. I replied that it was fun to read, but I was having serious trouble accepting his world as actually populated by human beings, even for long enough to suspend my disbelief... humans just don't work that way.
He smiled and said "keep reading".
Later, I was amused.