PopCo
by Scarlett Thomas · first published 2004
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Alice Butler has been receiving some odd messages - all anonymous, all written in code. Are they from someone at PopCo, the profit-hungry corporation she works for? Or from Alice's long-lost father? Is someone else on her trail? The solution, she is sure, will involve the code-breaking skills she learned from her grandparents and the key she's been wearing around her neck since she was ten. PopCo is a grown-up adventure of family secrets, puzzles and the power of numbers.
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Totally off topic: have you read PopCo by Scarlet Thomas? If not, you must.
on “Programming is hard” ↗There's also a very interesting novel where the Voynich manuscript plays a central role: PopCo by Scarlett Thomas [0] Another central theme that will probably appeal to this audience is underground resistance against global commercialisation. [0]: http://www.amazon.com/PopCo-Scarlett-Thomas/dp/B000I2J20E/re...
on “Mysterious Voynich manuscript has 'genuine message'” ↗This sound like the idea laid out in the book PopCo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PopCo). It is a good read.
on “Jewelbots – A Friendship Bracelet You Can Code” ↗In the novel I’m currently reading, Popco (which I think the HN crowd would totally dig), there’s a section where there’s a seminar in network theory talking about the reason things like 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon, or any network of connected nodes,…
on “Mister Rogers Had a Point: Routinely Greeting Six Neighbors Maximizes Wellbeing” ↗