Dang man, maybe that _Little_Brother_ *should* be banned, for
being too much fun. There're some odd geek projects to replicate some
of the things in it in the real world, e.g. paranoid linux (
<a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/05/little-brothers-para.html">http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/05/little-brothers-para.html</a> )<br>
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-- CHS<br>
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/15/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">JK</b> <<a href="mailto:jknapka@kneuro.net">jknapka@kneuro.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Michael B. Trausch wrote:<br> > On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 10:39 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:<br> >> Dang! Haven't made it through the first chapter and I'm feeling<br> >> creepy! Thanks for the heads-up on the new read, dude. I'll bet it's<br>
>> on the list for 2000+.<br> >><br> >> I really like the links to teacher material in the preview/philosophy<br> >> prelude. This is looking like it should be on the shelf next to 1984<br> >> which is still covered but not so much as during cold-war days -<br>
>> people don't like seeing the flipflop nature of global politics).<br> ><br> > Wow. I just read this the entire way through, and I thought it was<br> > absolutely amazing.<br> <br> <br> <br>Ditto. And I sent the following to about two dozen friends and<br>
acquaintances, most of whom have no particular connection to IT:<br> <br> <br> > Sorry to bother you, and apologies if you've already done so, but I<br> > think as many people as possible should read this book:<br>
<br>><br> > <a href="http://craphound.com/littlebrother/Cory_Doctorow_-_Little_Brother.htm">http://craphound.com/littlebrother/Cory_Doctorow_-_Little_Brother.htm</a><br> ><br> <br>> The full text is available at the link above. Here's the first sentence:<br>
><br> > "I'm a senior at Cesar Chavez high in San Francisco's sunny Mission<br> > district, and that makes me one of the most surveilled people in the<br> world."<br> ><br> > If you like the book, or even if you just can't be bothered to read<br>
> it right now, please pass the link on to anyone you think might be<br> > interested in issues surrounding freedom and control in an information<br> > society. Especially kids.<br> ><br> > Thank you for your attention,<br>
><br> > -- Joe<br> <br> <br> Maybe a few of them will read it. That first sentence is a great<br> hook.<br> <br> -- JK<br> <br><br> --<br> I do not particularly want to go where the money is -<br> it usually does not smell nice there. -- A. Stepanov<br>
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