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A'''''Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom''''' is a novel by [[Cory Doctorow]], set in the future of the Bitchun Society, which has abolished conventional money (replace by Whuffie, a complex reputation-based system), scarcity (with cheap renewable energy and nano-assemblers), death (replaced by [[Brain Uploading|brain uploads]] and subsequent [[Body Surf|downloads]] to fast-grown clones), and government (with entirely ad-hoc structures).
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A novel by [[Cory Doctorow]] set in the future of the Bitchun Society, which has abolished conventional money (replace by Whuffie, a complex reputation-based system), scarcity (with cheap renewable energy and nano-assemblers), death (replaced by [[Brain Uploading|brain uploads]] and subsequent [[Body Surf|downloads]] to fast-grown clones), and government (with entirely ad-hoc structures).
 
The story chronicles one of a group of adhocrats running The Haunted Mansion at Disney World, trying to solve his own murder after he is killed prior to the hostile takeover of said attraction by another ad-hoc committee.