Posted: 2/4/2010 4:04:19 PM by
Lesa Ukman | with 0 comments
I read everything Cory Doctorow writes, and when I got his newest book, Makers, I suspected it would be a binge read, i.e., an all-nighter.
It was. Set in the near future—the U.S. is a third-world country, drugs have eradicated obesity and a tanking Disneyland is catering to Goths—the book's heroes are a pair of indie, open source creators who mine garbage dumps for the electronics in the trashed products and empower squatters and homeless with tools to be self-sustaining. Funny, insightful and alarmingly close to reality.
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