mostlylucid

scott galloway's personal blog...
posts - 909, comments - 723, trackbacks - 11

My Links

News

Archives

Post Categories

Misc. Coding

Microsoft Funded High School - anyone read Jennifer Government?

If you don't think this is a start of a trend...well...the last true marketing opportunity. I'm aware that there's a few schools in the states which are already basically sponsored by corporations but this is quite sad...Anyway, have a read of Jennifer Government by Max Barry if you want to get a feel for the way things may be going. It's basically a story of what can happen if corporations become more powerful than governments (so, your kids get names like Kate MacDonalds and John Hasbro etc...)





Print | posted on Friday, September 05, 2003 7:37 PM | Filed Under [ Books Links ]

Feedback

Gravatar

# re: Microsoft Funded High School - anyone read Jennifer Government?

Neal Stephenson wrote a scifi cyperpunk book along those lines -- Snow Crash. Basically the goverments wilted away to small city states while corporations ran everything else.
11/20/2003 8:01 PM | Craig
Gravatar

# re: Microsoft Funded High School - anyone read Jennifer Government?

Yup, one of my favourite books of all time - hacking and Pizza Delivery, the perfect combination :-)
11/20/2003 9:59 PM | Scott Galloway
Gravatar

# re: Microsoft Funded High School - anyone read Jennifer Government?

I even named an old company of mine 'Nam Shub Security' in honour of this book...sad (I was young damnit!) but no bugger knew what it was anyway.
6/3/2004 9:44 AM | Test Comment
Gravatar

# re: Microsoft Funded High School - anyone read Jennifer Government?

yes Jennifer Government is a good boock to read.
11/11/2004 9:20 PM | nathan
Comments have been closed on this topic.

Powered by: