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I've heard it described as excel with a 3D engine bolted on the front of it. Maybe one could market a tool that turns mundane corporate data entry into an exci
by JonnieCache 13y ago
I've heard it described as excel with a 3D engine bolted on the front of it.
Maybe one could market a tool that turns mundane corporate data entry into an exciting battle for galactic domination, and make your white collar peon employees battle each other mercilessly to increase shareholder value. If you die in the game, you get fired.
EDIT: actually, please don't do that. unless you do this first: http://www.richardkmorgan.com/novels/market-forces/ http://www.richardkmorgan.com/novels/market-forces/
- lmm 13y agoThe irony is that for all Morgan's anti-corporatism, the privatization of war for profit has greatly served to reduce violence, from England's Glorious Revolution onwards. Corporations are better at avoiding war than monarchs, not because they particularly care about people per se but because war is just so wasteful.
- JonnieCache 13y agoThe books are good though. Hopefully someday somebody will have the stomach to film Altered Carbon.