Lester and Perry's friendship falls to pieces when Lester gets the fatkins treatment, which turns him into a sybaritic gigolo.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Lawsuits multiply as venture capitalists take on a new investment strategy: backing litigation against companies like Disney. As their rides gain in popularity, a rogue Disney executive engineers a savage attack on the rides by convincing the police that their 3D printers are being used to make AK-47s.

Perry and Lester build a network of interactive rides in abandoned Walmarts across the land. The New Work bust puts the dot-bomb to shame. Together, they transform the nation and blogger Andrea Fleeks is there to document it. Barefoot bankers cross the nation, microinvesting in high-tech communal mini-startups. Makers Octo/ Cory Doctorow / Novels Weirdly, I wrote it years before the current econopocalypse, as a parable about the amazing blossoming of creativity and energy that I saw in Silicon Valley after the dotcom crash, after all the money dried up. Predator, Robbins Mentioned by Rolf Potts on Goodreads The Best American Poetry, Lehman 25th Anniversary Edition (The Best of the Best) Mentioned by Rolf Potts Rated 3.

When Kodak and Duracell are broken up for parts by sharp venture capitalists, Perry and Lester help to invent the 'New Work,' a New Deal for the technological era. Makers, Doctorow Mentioned by Seth Godin on Goodreads One Police Plaza, Caunitz Mentioned by Marc Goodman Rated 3.8 over 400 reviews on Goodreads Alien vs. They also invent entirely new economic systems. The book is published for free (as in libery and beer) under. Perry and Lester invent things: seashell robots that make toast, Boogie Woogie Elmo dolls that drive cars. This is a repository of Creative Commons licensed works related to Cory Doctorows book Makers.

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