Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 07:35:35 +0800
From: Cory Doctorow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Radar commissioned me to write them a science fiction story about "the
day Google became evil." I wrote them a little short-short called
"Scroogled," about the perfect axis of evil: the DHS and Google, working
hand in hand. As part of the contract negotiation, I got Radar to agree
to release the story under a remix-friendly Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license, so you're free to make
movies, slideshows, songs, art, or new texts from this one.
> Greg landed at San Francisco International
Airport at 8 p.m., but by the time he'd made it
to the front of the customs line, it was after
midnight. He'd emerged from first class, brown
as a nut, unshaven, and loose-limbed after a
month on the beach in Cabo (scuba diving three
days a week, seducing French college girls the
rest of the time). When he'd left the city a
month before, he'd been a stoop-shouldered,
potbellied wreck. Now he was a bronze god,
drawing admiring glances from the stews at the front of the cabin.
>
> Four hours later in the customs line, he'd
slid from god back to man. His slight buzz had
worn off, sweat ran down the crack of his ass,
and his shoulders and neck were so tense his
upper back felt like a tennis racket. The
batteries on his iPod had long since died,
leaving him with nothing to do except eavesdrop
on the middle-age couple ahead of him.
>
> "The marvels of modern technology," said the
woman, shrugging at a nearby sign: Immigration—Powered by Google.
Scroogled:
http://www.radaronline.com/from-the-magazine/2007/09/google_fiction_evil_dangerous_surveillance_control_1.php
Creative Commons license:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
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