@booklet {8186, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Degrees of Freedom"}, howpublished = {Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Society}, year = {2014}, month = {2014}, pages = {206-42}, publisher = {William Morrow}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

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.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author}, author = {Karl Schroeder (b. 1962)}, editor = {Ed Finn and Kathryn Cramer} }