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from Maneki Neko
  • Short story by Bruce Sterling Maneki Neko. Has a network-mediated gift economy that exists as a kind of subversive subculture within capitalism. This story also involves a conflict between protocol systems. I officially declare this the most protocol story ever.
from Distraction
  • book by Bruce Sterling
    • Takes place in near future (2045?) world of mostly-collapsed political order
    • Protagonist: Oscar, a slick independent political operative
    • Most of the action involves his soft takeover of a government science lab in East Texas
    • Oscar falls in with Greta, a neurologist who just wants to do science
    • Opposed by a lunatic Huey Long-esque governor of Louisiana (evil biohacking)
    • The boldness of Distraction is that it imagines a collapsing America that still feels livable.
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Bruce Sterling

30 Oct 2021 - 16 Dec 2022
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    • SF author, futurist, and "visionary in residence". Has recently been more of a very hip international designer stance guru, sort of.
    • I recently reread and have been recommending his 1998 novel Distraction.