365 Days of Books

Makers by Cory Doctorow was an impulse addition to my Christmas list and my Mother-in-law came through. I thoroughly love this book! I read a lot of science fiction but don't consider myself an honored Nerd for the technology. Nor am I particularly interested in economics other than 1 or 2 previous science fiction books and my Economics class at UNCA where I found many interesting articles in the Wall Street Journal. Why did they require that for education majors? Makers is enthralling. I was torn between reading all day and all night and maybe even calling in sick to work or portioning it out in chapters and pages in order to make it last longer. I ended up doing a little bit of each. At night I dreamed about the characters and inventions; I woke up thinking about them. When it was over, I was satisfied but slightly sad. Perry and Lester invent things/ideas/concepts/systems. Suzanne documents it all on her blog. Kettlewell is the big company who wants to turn what they do into $$ and a way of living. Tjan is the financial manager brought in to organize "the boys". Can inventors keep inventing under the eye and constraints of any business model? What happens when a revolutionary business model threatens the monoliths of the business world? When is failure really failure? What is success on a personal level? I'm awestruck by Mr. Doctorow.

# posted by JJ @ 2:42 PM