Madelaine Drohan's Making A Killing: How And Why Corporations Use Armed Force to Do Business will be published by Random House later this year. I heard a brief interview with her on CBC radio and thought my fellow SR players might find it interesting.

The radio broadcast is archived here.

Funny how some of the issues raised in Shadowrun have become unlikely since the game's inception (the supremacy and ubiquitousness of Japanese industry, the relevance of industrial music) while others are more real than ever (private police forces, multinational corporations involved in public legislation, concentration of media ownership, etc.). It's a big part of what I love about this game.

Bugger. I take it that it's just there? I mean, there's noth other way to listen without using RealAudio.

AFAIK, that's it. Don't have RealAudio?

I'll take a guess: don't want RealAudio. Or anything associated with RealPLayer in general.

I like how RP and related products feel it's appropriate and necassary to take over your computer and file associations and not let you set them back.

By the power of mplayer I give you the realaudio file converted into mp3 goodness.

Click here to download!

[edit] The running time is 30 minutes, so the file has turned out a little larger than the realaudio version. Just a heads up if you're on a dial up or something [/edit]

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Thanks Connor, very cool of you.

nothing a good download manager cant handle

sure the japanacrops are not as ig as they used to be (alltho sony still seeems to become the first tru megacorp) the idea of corporate armys are born from the way japanese and some american corps handle theyre workforce and security. allso, if you take the right wing of politics and stretch theyre views as far s you feel like going the idea of corps being independent of any contry is not that far of...

remeber that sci-fi takes todays tech and try to envision how it will be in say 50 years, cyberpunk does the same on a social, economic and political level to so most of what we get in cyberpunk is what we have today put on the sharp edge...

personaly i see more and more traits of a cyberpunk world IRL, im just waiting for the anouncement of cyberlimbs and maybe neural interfaces...