Friday 18 June 2010
Cory Doctorow's "For the Win" ☀
First things first: Have you read sci-fi-novelist/cyber-rights-polemicist Cory Doctorow’s latest, For the Win? And if not, why on earth are you reading this blog instead? Seriously: Most of what you could learn from seven years’ worth of Terra Novan scribblings on the meanings of virtual economies, the seductions of MMOs, and the emergence of digital play as a global socioeconomic force can be learned more quickly and more pleasurably from this gripping tale of epic, continent-hopping virtual class struggle — a “young adult” thriller for the young adult in all of us (or perhaps the budding games scholar in every young adult) starring that unlikeliest of literary heroes and most culturally fraught of online-gaming personae, the Chinese gold farmer.
