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A review by gilmae
Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
4.0
I dithered between a 3- or 4-star review, but I suppose since I am still reading this 20-odd years after it as published, suggests it isn't as 'of an age' as I once thought.
I haven't read it for years, possibly not in the last 15, since I became a microserf myself, although I never did really.
As I was reading it, it just kept occurring to me that change the names, the events, and the years, and it is basically now. Bill has become Steve, or Zuckerberg, or Ev, with corresponding company name changes. IBM is Microsoft, or Apple, or News Ltd. Oops, if Microserfs had been written twenty years later, would be some social application. The geek houses and the startup office would be exactly the same.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
I haven't read it for years, possibly not in the last 15, since I became a microserf myself, although I never did really.
As I was reading it, it just kept occurring to me that change the names, the events, and the years, and it is basically now. Bill has become Steve, or Zuckerberg, or Ev, with corresponding company name changes. IBM is Microsoft, or Apple, or News Ltd. Oops, if Microserfs had been written twenty years later, would be some social application. The geek houses and the startup office would be exactly the same.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.