Eastern Standard Tribe

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Finished Cory Doctorow’s Eastern Standard Tribe last night. (It’s a short book, and reads pretty quick.) Premise: It’s 2012, and subcultures have grown up around time zones. Art Berry is living in London, but his true loyalty lies with the east coast of North America, to the detriment of his sleep schedule. Also to the detriment of his official employer, a European conglomerate that he’s sabotaging with plausible-but-bad user interface design advice. Then his lover and best friend betray him over his brilliant idea for a wireless networking music-swapping scheme for use in traffic jams, and have him committed. Or maybe that’s just a paranoid fantasy brought about by sleep deprivation....