The Secret Life
Andrew O'Hagan
Robin Laing
Andrew O’Hagan issues three bulletins from the porous border between cyberspace and the ‘real world.’ Ghosting introduces us to Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, whose autobiography the author ghost-writes with unforeseen consequences. The Invention of Ronnie Pinn finds the author using the identity of a deceased man to construct an entirely new one in cyberspace. Finally, The Satoshi Affair chronicles the strange case of Craig Wright, the Australian web developer who may or may not be the mysterious inventor of Bitcoin.
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