Re: OT: HCB with a Minolta CLE

[Carlos Royo]

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I read a great science-fiction novel years, and years, and years ago, that 
I've been trying to find ever since. Well, well, well before NAFTA, well before 
this was even conceived of. I'd say at least 20 years ago, maybe even longer.

Well, it wasn't that well-written, as I recall, but the ideas were starling 
and an eye opener. And ever since, as time has gone on, I feel it has become 
more and more prophetic. I wish I knew what the name of it was, maybe it was a 
short story. Some have written the same idea since, but it was the first one to 
do so as far as I know.

The idea was - in the future there are no nations, only corporations, and all 
allegiance is to those corporations. People are citizens of corporations, not 
nations.


Perhaps the sci-fi novel you are referring to is "The Space Merchants" 
by Frederick Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth.
It is a very well written novel about a corporation-controlled world, 
with citizens divided in three classes: producers, consumers and high 
executives, and driven by consumerism.

Carlos