[FRIAM] science fiction - government - economy

[Prof David West]

The few on the list that read science fiction: have you read Norman Spinrad's, *A World Between*?

I bring it up because it might offer some interesting points that would fit into the government / economy / technocracy / social media threads.

The context involves a parliamentary "electronic democracy;" government that finances itself with a monopoly on energy and metals with occasional "gov corps" created to intervene in the free market when it gets rapacious; and densely interconnected media Web with the "Minister of Media" being the second most powerful government official after the Chair of parliament.

davew
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