Notes to Self

Little Brother - Corey Doctorow. Use technology to establish secretive communications. Cast-off technology. Media manipulation and Buzz

To read: Distraction - Bruce Sterling - Down and out people using tech to communicate. Economic nomads

 

Consider - current economic climate produces multitudes of economic or "credit" refugees. How would they live? Would they band together in tribes? others may prey on them  - making a career out of hunting the refugees for Crimestoppers cash. Refugees try to seem normal to avoid capture or detection. Maybe hiding in foreclosed suburbs?

idea - use homebrew NDS apps

imagine - the feeling of crushing defeat - simple mistake + disaster(health, economy, etc) leads to "debts no honest man can pay". Abandoning it all to keep family fed. Maybe different for maybe a hispanic family? Choose between hiding from debtors and maybe mistaken for illegal alien?

Joe notes family like this by noticing expensive but worn clothes. compares to dustbowl grapes of wrath folks

Mix in with Sam building tale and the girl stories.

Billy two pines - "magic moves around"

After running my own Homebrew rig for a few days - Imagine an app that is killer enough that everyone wants it. Like say a digital assistant rather than PDA with like a character that you give instructions to. Skinnable with a variety of easily programmed avatars. Plug-in structure and creation kit. avatars are skins for OS daemons who communicate with each other and have an AI of sorts. Underneath is a secure text communication method that will use any available connection. Even an old style acoustic couple to a cell or landline phone. Maybe even using SMS for short messages in encrypted form. Open source so versions appear for any available OS from desktop to palmtop to phone.