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Imagine you woke up one day and Walt Disney had taken over the world.
Not only that, but money's been abolished and somebody's developed the
Cure for Death. Welcome to the Bitchun Society--and make sure you're
strapped in tight, because it's going to be a wild ride. In a world
where everyone's wishes can come true, one man returns to the original,
crumbling city of dreams--Disney World. Here in the spiritual center
of the Bitchun Society he struggles to find and preserve the original,
human face of the Magic Kingdom against the young, post-human and
increasingly alien inheritors of the Earth. Now that any experience can
be simulated, human relationships become ever more fragile; and to
Julius, the corny, mechanical ghosts of the Haunted Mansion have come to
seem like a precious link to a past when we could tell the real from the
simulated, the true from the false.
Cory Doctorow--cultural critic, Disneyphile, and ultimate Early Adopter
--uses language with the reckless confidence of the Beat poets. Yet
behind the dazzling prose and vibrant characters lie ideas we should all
pay heed to. The future rushes on like a plummeting roller coaster, and
it's hard to see where we're going. But at least with this book
Doctorow has given us a map of the park.