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Simon Wells
Simon Wells

Simon Wells is an academic researching Argumentation Theory, Automated Reasoning, Intelligent Agents (IA) and MultiAgent Systems (MAS) all approached through a ludic lens.

He is particularly interested in how these tools can be usefully applied to critical literacy, security, gamification, and complex systems.

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Cory Doctorow - Little Brother

I finally got around to reading this recently and must say that I enjoyed it immensely. Unfortunately, by now I have been out of my teens for rather longer than I was in them, but I still class myself as a young adult on occasion if the mood takes me. By turns the book is both exhilarating and annoying. Exhilarating because you get carried along by the excitement of some of the more fast-paced sections, and annoying because it depicts a world that isn't exactly orthogonal to the one we live in. I don't think that it would take that great an incident to set Britain down the path depicted in this book with even worse consequences as most of the infrastructure is already in place and we do not have a powerful local government to combat an overreaching central government, so the kind of denouement depicted in Little Brother might be only a dream for the plucky Brits.

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