Funny, I’m biopharma IT, coincidence.
Well being the book Nazi that I am I may end up pushing this read onto many that I know.
Cheers and good luck in your endeavours.

In reply to Richard.

Also, thank you very much for the review on Amazon!

You’re absolutely right about the Palm Pilot. What can I say? The book had a long pre-publishing history, and has gone through many, many rewrites over the last eight years.

And yes, there are definitely strong resemblances to freenet. There are even more to a software application I worked on that was used for (perhaps strangely) a telemedicine project in Alaska. There are some significant differences from both, at least in my mind, but it’s quite possible that I cut so much from the technical bits that it’s not quite so clear to non-telepaths.

Thanks for reading the book, and for your comments! I will fix the Palm problem very soon. In fact, it won’t be there tomorrow. {8’>

Good read. I’m a programmer and had to laugh at how spot on the book reflects that world. However I did have issue that the handheld mentioned in the book is a palm pilot. You may want to update that to an android smartphone or just smartphone. I was surprised to fund that the software outlined in your book resembles the Darknet application called freenet. Although it does not run on handhelds it is almost identical to your description.
I’m glad Claire Wolfe posted about this read on her blog. Thanks for your work.