Distraction
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- Book: Distraction. Bruce Sterling.
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Review
Alberto from EconSF:
"Distraction, by Bruce Sterling. This novel focuses on politics, but the action happens against a backdrop of economic semi-collapse, where only about a third of people participate into the mainstream economy, and many of them do so by forming parts of the retinues of rich people (“krews”). Many people are nomads, and live on cheap-and-open tech and biotech. Nomad society is organized around “reputation servers” storing reputation as a currency. The book also contains a funny (but chilly) conversation in which one of the character, a car industry executive, explains why radical innovation is bad for business."
(https://edgeryders.eu/t/econ-sf-a-selection-of-works-and-authors/8582)