Little Brother explaining parts of my life...

[Nicole Brady]

The thing I loved best about Little Brother was how Doctorow put aspects of technology into layman's terms for the average person. Unlike Neuromancer, which I loved, we don't have to figure out much. It's straight up. I do medical billing for a living. Yesterday I was doing what I always do. Got the bills together in a batch online, ready for submission. I clicked onto AT&T Global Network Client, which is a program we have to fire up before accessing the Ivans program we use to submit the claims to medicare. As the AT&T program was loading (almost like AIM loads with the little infomers that tell you what is happening as it loads) I noticed something. it was NEGOTIATING THE ENCRYPTION KEYS WITH THE SERVER!!!!!!!!!!! and i UNDERSTOOD. That's why I loved this book. I cannot wait for more little things to happen that I can link to this Little Brother.

[Nicole Brady]

The medical field is definitely interesting but I love the teacher's schedule... ;-)

[Judith Piccione]

I hate to think that computers are smarter than me, but what's even scarier are the people that are smarter than computers...haha.

[Rebecca Burtram]

I too loved the way Doctorow simplified his explanations of technology. I have no problems navigating technology in its most basic functions, but I rarely understand why the computer is doing what it is doing. I loved getting a simplified glimpse into that world!

[Judith Piccione]

You do Medical Billing? For my summer job, I'm a Medical Records Specialist. I analyze the records and whatnot to get them ready for coding before they go to billing. It's an exciting field. I've been doing it since I was a junior in college (I think it's been about 5 years now?). If I wasn't going to school for teaching and really loving it, I might have changed my major and gotten into transcription or something because the medical field (sans the blood and guts) is so fascinating!