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Got this site via this entry by Cory Doctorow on DRM at Telltale. The EFF is ‘the leading civil liberties group defending your rights in the digital world’. A worthy cause indeed!
Alex Wilson’s short story Dry Frugal with Death Rays, showcased on Futurismic, led me to his online project Telltale Weekly, which aims to create an audiobook equivalent to Project Gutenberg.
Great stuff.
Correction: most of the audiobooks are NOT free, but they do start at only 25 cents.
This post from Sci-Fi Standpoint. I wonder about gene-modifying out such a fundamental part of human nature, not that I’m happy about these nasty characteristics… it’s a bit like getting rid of competitiveness, stress or aggression. None of them are nice things, but their elimination could have serious unintended consequences. Try the Vonnegut classic ‘Harrison Bergeron‘ for a dystopian projection of the attempt to iron out all human differences and make everyone ‘equal’.
I know Banks isn’t saying this exactly, and I love the idea in principle of getting rid of -isms, I’m just a little skeptical.
Still, anything we can do to bring on The Culture gets my vote.
