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POPSDoctorow's "Excuse Network" becomes real Cory Doctorow featured a distributed excuse network exactly like this in his short story I, Robot. You can read or listen to the podcast of the story for free here: http://craphound.com/000189.html In Doctorow's version, you called the number, said what you wanted said, specified who should say it (adult male, etc), and what number they should call. Once in a while, you got a call to do the same. There's nothing to stop this from becoming real, and apparently it's starting to! With an asterix PBX as the hub, you could even easily spoof the number the call was coming from.
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POPS Revealedix: the Gaul of Asterix was no joke after all "I have read about the new discoveries, but to be honest I don't think we will be reworking the Asterix stories," said Florence Richaud, a spokeswoman for Albert Rene, publishers of the series of albums. "The illustrator Albert Uderzo did try to make it authentic, but rather than educational material these are stories designed basically to make children laugh." Uderzo, 80, who has illustrated all of the Asterix adventures, is working on his memoirs and has no plans to give new life to his ferocious, moustached creation
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