Little Brother（4）

"I lost myself in the library, reading these beautiful old editions of the books. I got lost in Jack Keroac's On the Road a novel I'd been meaning to read for a long time" (Page 233)
"Another thing I loved was how the story is grounded in history: Marcus’ social studies teacher tells the class about the Civil Rights Movement in the 60’s and 70’s, especially what took place in the Bay Area. And Marcus makes connections between what was fought for then and what he’s fighting for now. He reads On the Road and Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, and the link he feels to his city gives him extra strength to continue to fight for it to become a free place again. How I wish my social studies andhistory teachers in high school had encouraged those kinds of connection. We can't be reminded too often that history is not irrelevant for our lives."
after learning that his best friend, Darryl, is not dead, but still being held in a secret prison on nearby Treasure Island Marcus starts a series of events that culminates in his final confrontation with the DHS. Starting with his confession, to his parents and Darryl's father, of what really happened the three days he was imprisoned, he gives all of his information to an investigative reporter friend. This leads to his being imprisoned and tortured (specifically with waterboarding) by the DHS, personified by the Severe Haircut Lady. He is rescued by the California Highway State Patrol (CHSP) after the governor of California acts on the information provided in the news article. He finds his friend Darryl alive, if severely traumatized by his treatment, as well as his girlfriend Ange in the Treasure Island secret prison.

Little Brother（3）

“I fireballed him as he was seeking out treasure after we wiped out a band of orcs, playing rock-paper-scissors with each orc to determine who would prevail in combat. This is a lot more exciting than it sounds.

It's quite civilized, and a little weird. You go running after someone through the woods, catch up with him, bare your teeth, and sit down to play a little roshambo.” 

Our very first introduction to Marcus tells us in intimate detail about the surveillance he has to deal with, from a bugged and limited SchoolBook computer through to metal detectors and in-class recording. Every key he taps is being analysed by someone, somewhere. Marcus also tells us, in detail, how to evade this surveillance. When his campaign gets going, Marcus leads us through the history of cryptography, of statistical analysis and spam filters (a page on Bayesian analysis), helps us (if we want) to build our own computers and know what to look for if we want to learn basic programming. Just to demonstrate that geekdom does not mean disassociation, we also get several seminars on classroom discussion of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the psychology of paranoia. Further along we learn how social networking can be adapted as a political tool, and how to create revolutionary cells with peer-to-peer security. There are also some fierce warnings about what kind of information not to give on the Internet and why.

Little Brother（2）

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night...


As some people know, as part of an ongoing research project I've spent the past five years reading every science fiction book written for the Young Adult market I can get my hands on. It's not been an entirely happy experience. In most of the books I've read there is an absence of any political complexity, and in particular, an inattention to the way the world works. Perhaps worse, there has been an utter failure to address what I have always thought of as one of the key factors that make an SF book an SF book, that at the end of it, the reader has learned something. This something can be about genetics, strategy in a military mission, the nature of beetle sexuality—I really and truly don't care—but I have always regarded SF as a didactic literature and regarded that didacticism as a good thing, yet most YA SF novels lack it (even when they simultaneously promote a political viewpoint such as science is bad, it will destroy the planet, focus on your mystical abilities). Little Brother, however, is fiercely, unashamedly didactic. Doctorow revels in what he has set out to do, which is simply to place in the hands of every school child a manual which could be subtitled "how to bring down your government and enjoy doing it." The first time I read it I was on a flight to the US, and while I became increasingly concerned that this might have been a Very Bad Idea, I also sort of hoped customs might find the book because it is inflammatory.

Little Brother（1）

"I hate to say it, but you're white. I'm not. White people get caught with cocaine and do a little rehab time. Brown people get caught with crack and go to prison for twenty years. White people see cops on the street and feel safer. Brown people see cops on the street and wonder if they're about to get searched. The way the DHS is treating you? The law in this country has always been like that for us."

I adored Little Brother. It’s such a smart, engrossing and inspiring book. It’s a story about a group of teenagers who think and care and question things, and then go off and do something about it. It’s about not being powerless—not letting others make you feel powerless, because that’s how they win. It’s about social change, but it’s not an idealist’s dream. Change does happen, but Marcus and his friends and allies run a lot of risks, and there are costs. There are also people in positions of power getting away with horrible things, and we’ve all seen that happen often enough.

Fahrenheit 451

I pick Fahrenheit 451 as a good example of the government and religion at future, because this book is about how people's life in the future, the society in completely different from today. What Montag done for his job is wrong thing as we see. The as a different period of time, people changed their mind like an opposite way as what we thinking. As a fireman Montag burn book for his job, he not put out the fire, his job was to burn books. Which is not making any sense in today. Because the government tried to manipulate people's mind, action by ruled them up with law. The government not allow people have their own thought, and have a book or read a book become illegal, (book is part of our society destroying book is same as destroying our society, book is contain most of the knowledge)   they just stay at home watching that TV wall day by day. In the book there is some exception, there is people that away wanna make a change of the society, they question the society. I think Ray Bradbury's purpose of writing this book is to remain people, media is not only think you have for  recreation media have took over book's place in this generation. People rely on media too much and forget how much the book can give.

The future of fight

The movie REAL STEEL is showing how boxing changed at future, boxing is not man to man anymore. It become robot to robot. 

Than boxing just become a man holding a remote and control the robot, like regular boxing, a robot can win on points, via a technical knock-out, or a true KO. The only way they appear capable of the latter is to cause their opponent to suffer a kind of major computer or power source malfunction. They can beat each other senseless, and yet survive, just to have their potential victory vanquished via a software bug or hard drive crash. And then there is the various baffling bells and whistles they can employ. In the end, cricket makes more sense. again it showing the improvement of human technology, we just have to boxing with the remote, let the robot fighting for them, it kind of lost the point of boxing, its like letting the robot doing sport for people is kind of pointless . New thing is not always make them to be better.

It’s good to know that, several decades from now, there will still be deadbeat dads. It’s also refreshing to see well to do adoptive parents bartering for a boy child like rug merchants in Marrakesh. Charlie needs money, and Max’s aunt apparently needs a kid to hug - that is, until he turns unctuous and rebellious. The price for the privilege? $100,000 - an in future money, that must be like 75 smackers. And no one seems phased by this concept. No one.

overpopulation

The video " 7 billion people everybody relax" exactly showing what happening in our planet, as our life runs  more better than usual, our population keep raising without limit. We know that there will be no more land to fill, if our population keep raising without a limit. For now there is a children die for hunger in every 5 seconds, even we tried so hard to help them! But as the population growing, there will be less land for agriculture, which it mean as our population keep raising there will be less food for everyone, so there will be more people hunger!

I consider what gonna happen will our population out of control in some day, are we going to control our population as how "to be or not to be"  do? Limited the born? At the end of the video it said " at the end of the century the population will be decrease."  people dying because there is more people come to this word? It not making any sense. people  expense their life for the new... 

And I don't think "fill" in those verses, means so much a specific "fullness" level, but more a continuing process, a reason why the most densely populated regions should go on multiplying as much as God allows us to grows our numbers.