JPod
Very evil... Very funny. A lethal joyride into today's new breed of techno geeks, Coupland's forthcoming novel updates Microserfsfor the age of Google.
Stats for nerds
8recommend
17mentions
16people
2008–2026years
53% recommend35% neutral12% critical
Mentions per year
What Hacker News says
- Did you read Microserfs and JPod, by Douglas Coupland? The reality of '80s/'90s Microsoft was a bit different from modern FAANG.
- I moved to California to work at a dot com on March 3, 2000. The NASDAQ peaked one week later on March 10. To me that era is captured in Douglas Coupland's novels Microserfs (pre-crash) and JPod (post-crash). JPod was also made into a show for Canadian TV that's a lot of fun!
- Closest thing I can think of is probably J-Pod, by Douglas Coupland.
- So it's not exactly what you asked for (Fiction) but you might want to check out Microserfs, by Douglas Coupland. Also, Jpod from Coupland, it's along the same lines. Quoting wikipedia: "Set in the early 1990s, it captures the state of the technology industry before Windows 95, and anticipates the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s."
- JPOD from Douglas Coupland. I like it much more than Microserfs :-)
- A lot of good suggestions. To try to avoid repeating what others have said too much, here are some from a different perspective.
# "JPod" by Douglas Coupland helped me realize that it was corporatism, not me, that was broken.
# Benjamin Franklin's autobiography showed me a history that was made of people, a people no different than me and mine, and that success comes from standing up and going your own way.
# "Time Enough for Love" by Robert Heinlein taught me that, while culture is arbitrary and we should be free to try to make it what we wish, that doesn't make it fake or ignorable.
# "Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, re-read as an adult, taught me the importance of formula in consistency and how much a market of fans love predictability.
# "Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin taught me that the movie can be a lot better than the book and that there is a problem with modern generations making an affectation out of book reading.
