Life, Inc opens for business

Dom — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:00:21 +0000

With all the updating to HeadBlog I have to do I knew this blog would suffer. Not that the absence of HeadBlog made me work any harder but hey, it’s an excuse. I’ve also just committed to some mad website project, more of which will follow if it ever takes off.

One thing I thought worth sharing today is an article about Douglas Rushkoff’s new book, Life, Inc. Here’s a man I was reading back at college and his ideas were stimulating in the early days of the internet and now he’s back, writing about something much, much bigger than the internet. But you guessed that by the book title, right?

So that’s another book to add to my list. I need my train journeys to get longer – which they might if I keep getting the wrong one like I did Monday night.

But that’s another story.

Still stuck in the future

Dom — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:00:30 +0000

Reading Hyperion was such an unexpected pleasure that I found myself more than happy (if such a state can possibly exist) to pick up and lug to work the next two books in the series. Endymion steps forward after the events of Hyperion and introduces a new group known as the Pax (the Catholic church). It’s hard to describe any of these books without becoming bogged down in jargon and mad, made up terms so I’ll barely bother. Suffice to say that it is more focussed than Hyperion and equally impressive in scope.

Having said that, I am looking forward to just picking up a book of short stories (probably either The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God or Tuesday Nights and Wednesday Mornings). I think I have that scheduled in for sometime in 2010…

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Life, Inc opens for business

Still stuck in the future