by Cory Doctorow ISBN:0765307596

read it for free on my PDA, later bought the paper book

Let me kill my story before I start it, so that I can dissect it and understand it. The theme of this story is: "Would you rather be smart or happy?"

ModEl-ing CultUre affinity as Tribal Ism.

Tribes are agendas. Aesthetics. Ethos. Traditions. Ways of Getting Things Done. They're competitive. They may not all be based on time zones. There are knitting Tribes and vampire fan-fiction Tribes and Christian-rock Tribes, but they've always existed. Mostly, these tribes are little more than Sub Culture-s. It takes time zones to amplify the cultural fissioning of fan-fiction or knitting into a full-blown conspiracy. Their interestes are commercial, industrial, cultural, culinary. A Tribesman will patrionize a fell Tribesman's restaurant, or give him a manufacturing contract, or hire his taxi. Not because of xenophobia, but because of homophilia: I know that my Tribesman's taxi will conduct its way through traffic in a way that I'm comfortable with, whether I'm in San Francisco, Boston, London, or Calcultta.

main character is Experience Design-er - the 2 big ideas he works on are

• WiTunes (my name) - a P2P File Sharing system for passing around tunes on the HighWay, with drivers getting paid for sharing a lot, and paying to keep songs as they leave the highway.

• technology to run more "open" Senior Housing (Transparent Society/Reputation Management)

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