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Eastern Standard Tribe

by Cory Doctorow

In this podiobook: Art is an up-and-coming interface designer, working on the management of data flow along the Massachusetts Turnpike. He's doing the best work of his career and can guarantee that the system will be, without question, the most counterintuitive, user-hostile piece of software ever pushed forth into the world.Why? Because Art is an industrial saboteur. He may live in London and work for an EU telecommunications megacorp, but Art's real home is the Eastern Standard Tribe.The comm -- instant wireless communication -- puts everyone in touch with everyone else, twenty-four hours a day. But one thing hasn't changed: the need for sleep. The world is slowly splintering into Tribes held together by common time zones, less than families and more than nations. And Art is working to humiliate the Greenwich Mean Tribe to the benefit of his own people.The world of next week is overflowing with ubiquitous computing, where an idea scribbled onto one's comm can revolutionize an industr

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Episodes

  1. Episode 12 - Eastern Standard Tribe

    -In this episode: Chapters 28 - 31, including Acknowledgments.The End.

  2. Episode 11 - Eastern Standard Tribe

    -In this episode: Chapters 24 - 27

  3. Episode 10 - Eastern Standard Tribe

    -In this episode: Chapters 22 and 23

  4. Episode 9 - Eastern Standard Tribe

    -In this episode: Chapters 19 - 21

  5. Episode 8 - Eastern Standard Tribe

    -In this episode: Chapters 17 - 18

  6. Episode 7 - Eastern Standard Tribe

    -In this episode: Chapters 14 - 16

  7. Episode 6 - Eastern Standard Tribe

    -In this episode: Chapter 13

  8. Episode 5 - Eastern Standard Tribe

    -In this episode: Chapter 12

  9. Episode 4 - Eastern Standard Tribe

    -In this episode: Chapter 11

  10. Episode 3 - Eastern Standard Tribe

    -In this episode: Chapters 9 and 10

  11. Episode 2 - Eastern Standard Tribe

    -In this episode: Chapters 5 - 8

  12. Episode 1 - Eastern Standard Tribe

    -In this episode: Chapters 1 - 4

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

In this podiobook: Art is an up-and-coming interface designer, working on the management of data flow along the Massachusetts Turnpike. He's doing the best work of his career and can guarantee that the system will be, without question, the most counterintuitive, user-hostile piece of software ever pushed forth into the world.Why? Because Art is an industrial saboteur. He may live in London and work for an EU telecommunications megacorp, but Art's real home is the Eastern Standard Tribe.The comm -- instant wireless communication -- puts everyone in touch with everyone else, twenty-four hours a day. But one thing hasn't changed: the need for sleep. The world is slowly splintering into Tribes held together by common time zones, less than families and more than nations. And Art is working to humiliate the Greenwich Mean Tribe to the benefit of his own people.The world of next week is overflowing with ubiquitous computing, where an idea scribbled onto one's comm can revolutionize an industr

HOSTED BY

Cory Doctorow

Produced by Evo Terra

CATEGORIES

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In this podiobook: Art is an up-and-coming interface designer, working on the management of data flow along the Massachusetts Turnpike. He's doing the best work of his career and can guarantee that the system will be, without question, the most counterintuitive, user-hostile piece of software ever...

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