Ender's Game and Software Development

/\ndy's Weblog: "As I read the novel, four main themes jumped out at me as being very relevant to software development. The hero of the story, Ender, had many gifts and attributes, but I think these were the ones that made him a success:

Comment: When I read that book several years back it's not the capabilities of the hero that struck me, it was the accuracy with which Orson Scott Card had read the future of communication, the one were in right now with the web. How you post messages and you build your credibility along the way. For example when I buy a book, I go to Amazon to figure what people think about it, but not just about any people, if I can find a review by someone who has credibility in the system it's even better for me...Granted Card could have just extrapolated on the news group idea and bulleting board, I think he did a good research on the topic.

Anyway v-good book serie I highly recommend it for those who likes soft-sf. Card has this tendendy to mix religion into his work, and the images used are sometimes just too transparent for me. This was even more obvious in the earth born serie.... "