Quote: (Originally Posted by
Demosthenes)
Just saying hi and cant wait to start spreading the industry gossip :-)
Hi and welcome - funny nick you chose - immediately reminded me of Ender, though it has been many years since I read thoose books.
So inspired by Orson Scott Card are we?
Well through his books (Ender series) Demosthenes was a pseuodonym that Enders brother was using to post and affect public oppinion.....
I hope you don't see yourself as a manipulator of oppinion.
Demosthenes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Demosthenes
From:
Orson Scott Card's treatment of the Net@Everything2.com Quote:
In his ever so famous
Ender's Game book series
Orson Scott Card creates his own version of
the Internet, several years before it's movement from
ARPA,
Universities, and
Big Business to
the rest of us.
In his conception there are
e-mail,
Usenet, and later
philotics giving birth to the
ansible. The first real use of this Internet is by
Valentine and Peter Wiggen who borrow their fathers account to not be represented by children on a sort of Usenet. They later move on to get their own aliases as
Demostenes and
Locke. This Usenet is highly moderated with accounts having ages and levels of access assigned to them. Through the false identities the children give political messages, create a movement, and eventually
rule the Universe as
the Hegemon. ....
If your nick is not a reference to this - perhaps you should change it?
Regards
Nicolai