Review: Makers
I got a chance to read Cory Doctorow’s Makers recently (entirely on my Nexus with the Aidiko app). The ideapack was great. The characters/narratives bored me.
One thing that irked me is that Cory’s understanding of the future is extremely uneven,. It’s a glum future, but one that 99% of our time we can get away with not seeing it because we’re in someone’s workshop. Maybe that’s supposed to be part of the charm of the characters/narrative I mentioned not really caring about.
Anyway plot devices aside, the book does get you thinking about a distributed manufacturing (a potentially HUGE sector of the econom that can impact at a core level) and that’s a win.
-Shlok
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