Trent McCauley is sixteen, brilliant, and obsessed with one thing: making movies on his computer by reassembling footage from popular films he downloads from the net.
In the dystopian near-future Britain where Trent is growing up, this is more illegal than ever; the punishment for being caught three times is that your entire household’s access to the internet is cut off for a year, with no appeal.
Hey, Austin! I’m in town today, doing an event at Book People at 7PM, and then an EFF-Austin benefit. Saturday, I’m in Portsmouth, NH, then on Sunday I’m in Nashua, NH.
Hey, Austin! I’m in town today, doing an event at Book People at 7PM, and then an EFF-Austin benefit. Saturday, I’m in Portsmouth, NH, then on Sunday I’m in Nashua, NH.
Hey, Austin! I’m in town today, doing an event at Book People at 7PM, and then an EFF-Austin benefit. Saturday, I’m in Portsmouth, NH, then on Sunday I’m in Nashua, NH.
Thanks to Darius Dunlap 2013 for shooting and uploading this CC-BY video from the first stop on my current Homeland tour, at the Seattle public library!
Hey, Houston! I’ll be at Brazos Bookstore tonight at 7PM with my new novel Homeland. Tomorrow, I’ll be in Austin at Bookpeople and then a benefit for EFF-Austin, and then I’m heading north to New Hampshire where I’ll be at RiverRun Books and the Liberty Forum. And there’s still many more cities!
Thanks to Darius Dunlap 2013 for shooting and uploading this CC-BY video from the first stop on my current Homeland tour, at the Seattle public library!
Hey, Houston! I’ll be at Brazos Bookstore tonight at 7PM with my new novel Bookpeople and then a benefit for EFF-Austin, and then I’m heading north to New Hampshire where I’ll be at RiverRun Books and the Liberty Forum. And there’s still many more cities!
Hey, Houston! I’ll be at Brazos Bookstore tonight at 7PM with my new novel Homeland. Tomorrow, I’ll be in Austin at Bookpeople and then a benefit for EFF-Austin, and then I’m heading north to New Hampshire where I’ll be at RiverRun Books and the Liberty Forum. And there’s still many more cities!
“Homeland” is as dead serious as “1984,” as potentially important a “novel of ideas,” with a much more engaging central character and an apparently inexhaustible supply of information on everything from brewing coffee to sneaky surveillance and how to defeat it.
Mr. Doctorow is bang up-to-date (as Orwell never was) on the uses of rapidly changing technology, both good and bad. If you want to keep up, there’s a four-page appendix on how to protect your privacy and use the Net productively—so long as you’re allowed, that is.
