Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Q B Fox's "while (bDarwin) {" (flash fiction, software dystopia, free)

Very widely deployed software products can get a life all their own, affecting our lives in ways no original programmer could have suspected...

Notes.

  1. For readers who find the title incomprehensible gibberish: it's a line of programming code that could have come from many common languages - including C++. Story text, however, doesn't require any special knowledge & should be broadly accessible.

Fact sheet.

First published: 365tomorrows, 5 September 2009.
Rating: A.
Download full text from publisher's site.

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