Charles Stross has a good post series about worldbuilding.
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/11/world-building-101.html
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/11/world-building-201-h...
Generally useful for thinking about the EP world and the future.
(He also has an interesting rant against evil social network systems,
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/11/evil-social-networks...
which suggests an interesting EP-related idea: is this how the rep networks started? And maybe are still partially run? "If you're not paying for the product, you are the product." goes for rep systems too. There might be an editor cabal that has plenty of power over your @-rep, and heavens know who C-rep Corp sells your info to...)
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