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Anybody checked this out yet? It's an online, opensource novel where people are allowed to add footnotes to the text. Here's the site: http://www.yil.com/rushkoff/
From Rushkoff's introduction:
"Exit Strategy is an open source novel. The story I wrote is merely the starting place for what I hope will be a lively interaction between all of us. The premise is that the central manuscript was written in the very near future, then hidden online and discovered 200 years later. Because society has changed so much, an anthropologist has annotated the text for his 23rd-century contemporaries. They are no longer familiar with notions such as venture capital or advertising, much less Microsoft or Nasdaq. The 23rd-century reader even needs a footnote explaining what condoms were used for.
These footnotes are a way for us to conceptualize a future that has moved beyond our current obsessions. Instead of describing that future explicitly, though, we will suggest what it will be like by showing what facts and ideas future readers won’t understand. I've written a hundred-odd footnotes to get us started re-imagining the present from the perspective of the future. It’s up to you to fill in the rest..."
Interesting concept. I know, I know, it's yahoo!, but what are you going to do? |
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