Technogeeks Save America: The libertarian lessons of Cory Doctorow's Little Brother - Reason Magazine

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Technogeeks Save America

The libertarian lessons of Cory Doctorow's Little Brother

Ronald Bailey | September 23, 2008

We know what happened to our civil liberties after the terrorist atrocities on September 11th. Imagine what would happen to our civil liberties if another major terrorist attack occurred. That's the premise of the new young adult novel Little Brother by Boing Boing co-editor Cory Doctorow.

The story opens with 17-year old Marcus Yallow, a.k.a. w1n5t0n, a senior at Cesar Chavez High School in San Francisco. Stuck in a boring social studies class, Yallow is busy checking out his favorite ARG (alternative reality game) site, Harajuku Fun Madness ("best game ever"). A new clue has just been revealed, prompting the cocky technogeek Marcus to jam his school's clunky surveillance systems so that he and his crew can ditch school and go find it. Just as his buddies Darryl, Vanessa (Van), and JoLu (Jose Luis) converge on the clue site, a terrorist attack blows up both the Bay Bridge and the BART tunnels under the bay.

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