Makers by Cory Doctorow

What is Makers by Cory Doctorow? A intelligently humorous and creative novel about the end of the economy from the visionary author of Little Brother. Cory Doctorow is an extraordinarily clever commentator of how technology influences the way we live and a astute prognosticator of where it will take us. So, while Makers investigates how technology will form big business, it does so on a very human scale and with expert characterisation that indicates what those changes could mean to us.
Perry and Lester create things. All kinds of things. Seashell robots that make toast, Boogie Woogie Elmo dolls that drive cars. They also design an totally new economic structure. ‘New Work’ is a New Deal for the technological epoch. Presently barefooted bankers are criss-crossing the society, microinvesting in high-tech public start-ups like Perry and Lester’s. In conjunction, they metamorphose a country, and journalist Suzanne Church is there to report it. However, a new economic system needs a whole new ideology system – and there are plenty of non-believers out there. The New Work blow puts the dot.com-bomb to discredit and in a minute Perry and Lester are out of funds and out of business. Down but not out, they go back to what they do best – making stuff. Even so, when a scamp Disney manager grows jealous of their once more rising popularity and convinces the police that their amazing 3-D printers are being used to run off AK-47s, things get very dark very quickly! This wonderfully pleasant and original novel from the visionary author of Little Brother effervesces with bold ideas about the future and how our lives will look as part of it. However, at its heart are three characters, Perry, Lester and Suzanne, on an historic journey that will bring them together only to break them apart as they each try to discover how to live relevantly in an dynamical world permeated with both glamour and horror — where some things really are immutable!
Some readers may find the common economics lectures a little dry and daunting, but Doctorow’s fortune-telling is just so probable and his vision displayed with such comprehensibility that it will leave you shaking your head in wonder.

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