The story focuses on the control of or access to new tools for understanding demographics and their use politically. In the story, set in the near future, the Canadian government has restricted access to most tools so as to be able to ensure its reelection, but some indigenous communities gain access to them and force the government to become more open. At the end, there is a suggestion that a freer society will result.
BT - Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Society C5 -PU
C6 -Canadian author (b. 1962).
C7 - 2014 CY - New York DA - 01/2014 LA - eng N2 -The story focuses on the control of or access to new tools for understanding demographics and their use politically. In the story, set in the near future, the Canadian government has restricted access to most tools so as to be able to ensure its reelection, but some indigenous communities gain access to them and force the government to become more open. At the end, there is a suggestion that a freer society will result.
PB - William Morrow PP - New York PY - 2014 SP - 206 EP - 42 T2 - Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Society TI - “Degrees of Freedom" ER -