Cory Doctorow's book Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom was released. You can download a free digital version here. He's utopian like that. Salon also published a shorter story Liberation Specturm. He also is the man behind boing boing which might be the best site on the internet. And he's also the outreach coordinator for the Electronic Freedom Foundation. You should give them some money.
Bruce Sterling had a really interesting quote about Sci-Fi being in a strong position right now to influence policy because of it's power to flesh out the complex technical questions we face today. Except his words were to the point and made you think "wow, that's a good point" whereas mine were probably a little more on the "huh?" side. But because I haven't been keeping up I don't have the link.
This is what you get.
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Bruce Sterling had a really interesting quote about Sci-Fi being in a strong position right now to influence policy because of it's power to flesh out the complex technical questions we face today. Except his words were to the point and made you think "wow, that's a good point" whereas mine were probably a little more on the "huh?" side. But because I haven't been keeping up I don't have the link.
This is what you get.
- jim 1-25-2003 3:12 am