Sunday, May 8, 2011

I finished reading Oryx and Crake. It was good. Margaret Atwood's ability to write a storyline telling significant occurrences with the why and how turning up much later, as well as her general concepts of future, were a pleasure to read. In a section of it Crake is talking about the big corporations coming up with new viruses to spread, alongside a cure, releasing it and with-holding medication until circumstances are dire in order to profit.

It reminded me of a talk I had with a friend of a friend that I never saw again who told me his conspiracies about gasoline and energy-efficient cars. He told me, almost whispering, that the government had killed people, literally killed, for their inventions enabling cars to run for extended periods of time on minimum gasoline. That these inventions were confiscated. Area 51, man.

I think Crake's conspiracies could be aligned with these on gasoline. I'm sure science and technology are much more advanced than we know. Delays of production allow for maximum profit. And what corporation doesn't want maximum profit?

Anyway, it was interesting to read a 'futuristic' book. A prediction of gene-splicing corporate-controlled messed-up people who have depleted resources and become so overpopulated that existing is a threat to the race. And I'm always up for a bit of conspiracy.

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