[P2P-F] Japanese p2p fiction

Thu Jan 6 17:27:04 CET 2011

Michel, very cool.  We may investigate for an anthology called Shareable
Futures, which we serialized last Spring on Shareable.net.  There's original
sci-fi shorts from Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling, and others not so well
known that are equally good if not better:

http://www.shareable.net/blog/shareable-futures

Any other ideas?

Neal

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On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> I wonder if you could investigate, if not read, this:
> http://www.stanford.edu/~allison/saito.html
>
> ast year, I published a Sci-Fi fantasy novel to illustrate the goal of my
> research, as a sequel to Prof. Jun Murai's book about the Internet for
> children.
>
> I have translated the novel into English, and begun to distribute it under
a
> CreativeCommons license so that people around the world can read the
novel,
> and also hopefully help me improve the document and my research.
>
> The novel is titled "NEO IN WONDERLAND - A Tale of Money That Changed Our
> Future". The home url of the novel is http://grsj.jp/neo.pdf
>
> Please help spread the word about the novel.
>
> ________________________________
> Overview of the novel:
>
> Today, humanity seems to be suffering from a trilogy of problems: we are
> living in the era of Peak Oil in which the world production of petroleum
is
> about to hit its peak if not it has already done so (energy crisis), which
> is probably the fundamental reason why we are experiencing the severest
> economic depression in the history of capitalism (economic crisis), while
> the whole human activities with effects to change the earthly environment
> are alleged to be the cause of climate changes (environmental crisis).
>
> Some argue that moving toward so-called green economy, or changing to
> natural energy sources instead of relying on fossil fuels, is the solution
> to all these. Will it work, or will it just introduce another level of the
> same trilogy of problems as long as our economy requires to keep growing?
>
> Let's begin an adventure with Accianco, a kindergarten girl, Kencha, a
super
> robot, and Puppy-chan, a puppy, to explore an alternative solution in this
> sci-fi monetary fantasy novel. The story begins one year after the past
> adventure of the trio, in which they visited the Wonderland where the
> Internet is utilized in an extreme fashion.
>
> Dr. Suttokoholm, a blind genius scientist in the Wonderland, is kidnapped
by
> the Army of Centricity that aims to invade the country! Accianco, Kencha,
> Puppy-chan and Accianco's mother go to the Wonderland through the wormhole
> invented by Dr. Suttokoholm.
>
> A new adventure begins around the centerless monetary mechanism in the
> centerless Wonderland that takes place in Hunan City, a big city in the
> Wonderland.
>
> What is the Army of Centricity after? Will Accianco and her friends be
able
> to save Dr. Suttokoholm?
>
> The story evolves in an unexpected way as they encounter mysterious NEO in
> the Wonderland.
>
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