Daniel Suarez’s Daemon (again) and Freedom™ — Enthusiasticast Episode 11

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In a follow up to episode two, Jon endorses Daniel Suarez’s Freedom™ and we revisit Daemon. Yes there are spoilers.

We also mention…

• Neal Stephenson’s Snowcrash
• William Gibson’s Neuromancer
• Daniel Suarez at The LongNow Foundation (fora.tv)
• Gamer
• The May 6, 2010 Wall Street Flash Crash — Bot Mediated?
• Wikipedia entry for whuffie
• Down and Out in The Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
• The Whuffie Factor by Tara Hunt

Our casting of the Daemon movie

• Edward Norton as Jon Ross
• Jay Baruchel as Brian Gragg aka “Loki”
• Stephen Lang as the Major
• Merrin Dungey as Natalie Phillips
• Natalie Portman as Anji Anderson
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Peter Sebeck
• Bruce Willis as Roy Merritt

Suarez also gave a Google Tech Talk that is worth checking out.
Mark wrote a post about Freedom™ sometime after episode 2.

Music: Thanks to Drift for licensing ‘Invisible’ under creative commons.