Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

Heftet

9780007327935

2010

432

Engelsk

Cory Doctorow

Jules is a young man barely a century old. He's lived long enough to see the cure for death and the end of scarcity, to learn ten languages and compose three symphonies ! and to realize his boyhood dream of taking up residence in Disney World. 

Disney World! The greatest artistic achievement of the long-ago twentieth century. Now overseen by a network of 'ad hocs' who keep the classic attractions running as they always have, enhanced with only the smallest high-tech touches. 

But the ad hocs are under attack. A new group has taken over the Hall of Presidents and is replacing its venerable audioanimatronics with new, immersive direct-to-brain interfaces that give guests the illusion of being Washington, Lincoln and all the others. For Jules, this is an attack on the artistic purity of Disney World itself.  Worse: it appears that this new group has had Jules killed.

This upsets him. (It's only his fourth death and revival after all.) Now it's war.

teknologi, framtid