>> i do, i do. >> reporter: -- author rob hart shows us his old work digs to make a point.ok shop gave him both value and time. >> it was nice to be able to go home from work when i was supposed to go home at work, not at 9:00 or 10:00 at night. >> and he took a pay cut from the world of journalism to do it. >> so by coming here, it was a chance to exhale a little bit, spend time with my family, which, again, is getting harder and harder to do under this economy. >> reporter: it's a far cry from the world he creates in "the warehouse," a dystopian cyber thriller where big tech's pr predatory monopoly looked to increase productivity and profits. >> any particular company out there? >> totally fictional, made it up. >> totally. >> i did a ton of research on this. to peg it down to any one company, i think, is dangerous. >> do workplaces exist like this as described in the book? >> yeah. in the warehouse there's a live/work facility. it's so big they build dormitories so you work there and live there. that's the foxconn model in asia. >> reporter: hart's world pumps steroids i