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...THC: You’ve garnered a lot of praise in the “Free Culture” movement—and scorn from its enemies—for your adoption of the Creative Commons license for all of your writing. Your latest book is even licensed for profitable use in developing nations. How is this a move towards empowering artists...
...THC: One broad theme in your work seems to be a mild form of optimistic technological determinism, in contrast to the typical 1980s cyberpunk dystopian future. Your model of the Bitchun Society in “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom” in particular seems to be, if not quite a utopia, at least a world in which boredom is one of the biggest problems for most people. Do you think today that our technology is gradually narrowing the possible outcomes into a miasma of mediocrity...
...THC: Along those lines, what picture of Walt Disney emerges from all the research and collection you’ve done; is he a failed utopian, are there troubling aspects to his view of society...
...THC: Could you speak a little bit about your attitude towards the online, open-source encyclopedia Wikipedia? Because I know there was some misinformation about your career on there for a while, regarding the relative success of your career, among other things...
...THC: Do you have advice for aspiring authors...