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I'm not a good judge of these things, but it reminds me of Bradbury -- I wonder if he could be sued for that? /seriously, it does remind me of Bradbury
by jerrya 15y ago
I'm not a good judge of these things, but it reminds me of Bradbury -- I wonder if he could be sued for that?
/seriously, it does remind me of Bradbury
- burgerbrain 15y agoSeemed almost like a concept out of a Charles Stross novel to me.
- michaelbuckbee 15y agoAccellerando had some similarly interesting riffs on the future of torts and patent law (IIRC the main character had patentend the practice of patenting a group of patents into a larger patent portfolio).
- IsaacL 15y agoIt was smarter than that, he'd patented the practice of using genetic algorithms to automatically patent all solutions within a given problem set. Interesting book!
- lukejduncan 15y agoI had the same thought
- dclowd9901 15y agoBradbury's approach was always a social message, even social commentary veiled through token "sci-fi", which was really never that far-fetched, and very central to the characters themselves. Great observation.