Oryx and Crake part 2

Episode 416: Oryx and Crake part 2 Guests: C-Realm listeners Paul, Nisha, Sam and Lauren and Eric Boyd In the conclusion to KMO’s conversation with four C-Realm listeners about Margaret Atwood’s dark, speculative vision, Oryx and Crake, they ask, “Where is the government?” How plausible is it that all government functions will have been subsumed by corporations by the middle of this century? What do they use as money? How do they enforce intellectual property regimes? Later, KMO takes up this question with Eric Boyd before offering up his own take on the lingering question from last week’s show. “Why make the Crakers at all?”