Daemon

In March 2008, Stewart Brand, the famous Merry Prankster and editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, stepped out of the Hawaiian jungle and gave me a cryptic recommendation before fading back into the shadows:

Stewart knows something about how vision and storytelling can be used to go beyond simply imagining the future into actually creating it. I would like to invite you to reconsider the nature of the book you are holding. While it is billed as a techno-thriller, I believe that Daemon is better understood as a manifesto. And, if you want to go really d

daemon (dēm n)—A computer program that runs continuously in the background and performs specified operations at predefined times or in response to certain events. Condensed from "Disk and Execution MONitor"

horizon. "Here is your new thread. Only you

"Market forces. Busy professionals play these games to cool off in the evening. They have money but no time. Then there are skilled gamers with no money but lots of time. It’s a natural ecosystem. Whole economies exist in these virtual worlds.