Corporate cowboys (1:28 am)
Charlie Stross is trying to think happy thoughts, but failing - instead giving us a great polemic on what happens when people try to run a country like it’s a corporation. It’s a scary world, folks. It’s like Gibson’s zaibatsus, or Pohl & Kornbluth’s Space Merchants, have snuck in the back door whilst simultaneously taking over society out the front as well…
Hm, excuse the classic-science-fiction references. Take a large helping of John Brunner while you’re at it, and then check out my new book reviews over in the sidebar… McAuley coming up, soon.
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