257. Red Team Blues (ft. Cory Doctorow)
This Machine Kills
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The Importance of Forensic Accounting
Corey: I think the jackpot novels are really emblematic of this idea of contestable history, right? That like history is not a thing that just happens. It's a thing that people make. And you can tie that into his trilogy that came before the near future books and the recent past books about the Gulf War era. He says science fiction poses a useful tool for studying the mechanics that we aren't paying attention to. Corey: Heinlein's first story was an insurance tech story called Lifelineabout someone who builds a computer that can predict your exact moment of death.
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