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...)





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Gravatar # re: Microsoft Funded High School - anyone read Jennifer Government?
by Craig at 11/20/2003 8:01 PM

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.
Gravatar # re: Microsoft Funded High School - anyone read Jennifer Government?
by Scott Galloway at 11/20/2003 9:59 PM

Yup, one of my favourite books of all time - hacking and Pizza Delivery, the perfect combination :-)
Gravatar # re: Microsoft Funded High School - anyone read Jennifer Government?
by Test Comment at 6/3/2004 9:44 AM

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.
Gravatar # re: Microsoft Funded High School - anyone read Jennifer Government?
by nathan at 11/11/2004 9:20 PM

yes Jennifer Government is a good boock to read.

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