easy town book series

This is a collection of extracts about the Hub — it’s both an idea for a business model and an idea for a new internet platform.

The Hub started out as the project’s own social media platform and has evolved into an internet within the internet.

The Hub features include everything social media has to offer, plus a search engine, a book library, a cinema, a bank and more.

[Jack] ‘(…) So what is the Hub?’
‘It’s all social media in one castle,’ Noel proclaimed with pride. ‘Without the advertising or data collecting. And you get to decide whether your castle is a simple two-dimensional space with just a phone booth to call your kids, or a three-dimensional palace with nearly endless rooms (…)’

(book 1, beginning, week 7)

Hub users pay an equivalent of one euro a month in return for ad-free online services, privacy, full control over features, algorithms and designs.

Noel stood up and declared solemnly: ‘This is the end of big brother. This is the restoration of our privacy and self-determination. This is us, getting our lives back.’

(book 1, beginning, week 1)

The Hub Stations maintain the Hub network and include facilities for education, health, art and businesses to support local communities.

• Summary

Extracts from book 1

• How it all began, week 1
• The Hub Stations, week 2
• The Hub weekend, week 7
• Just before the conference, week 8
• The Hub speech, conference
• The Hub in town, conference
• Catching on, conference
• A nervous tech giant, conference
• At the party, conference
• Epilogue

Extracts from book 2/1

• The Hub, Happy Flying
• A site for the Hub in California, Happy Flying
• Bits and pieces about the Hub, San Francisco
• Politics in Rio
• A chat with the Dono in Rio
• The Hub Station in Buenos Aires
• Big players are nervous about the Hub, Buenos Aires
• The sex talk, Buenos Aires
• At the Hub Station in Cape Town, South Africa
• A clash, South Africa
• A site for the Hub Station, South Africa
• A meeting on the airliner
• The Hub Cinema
• The Hub Station in Sydney

Extracts from book 2/2

• Updates on the Flight to Beijing
• You haven’t come to China to do business?
• Autonomy for the Hub, China
• Nervous players again, China
• The Hub in China
• A Hub demonstration, Otaon
• Prince Harun wants to know more, Otaon
• The Hub in Romania
• About dwarfs and giants, Romania
• Hub Locations, Romania
• Numbers, Russia
• The Hub core transfer, Russia

Additional material

• Hub principles (so far)

PART I

main extracts and thoughts on dot.international

• Brainstorming for town businesses, book 1, week 3
• dot.international, book 2/1, Australia
• dot. international principles

PART II

book 2/1, travelling

• Urns, San Francisco
• Hachiro, San Francisco
• A show of respect, South Africa

book 2/2, travelling

• Who do I want to be? China
• dot. in China?
• Otaon
• Jesse, Australia & Romania
• The prince and the queen, Russia
• Berlin

PART III – additional material from book 1

• Job shaking
• Price per task

This collection includes the story of Princess Marlana.

This collection includes two extracts from book 2, travelling

book 2/1, travelling, Flight to Sydney

digesting instead of blocking

book 2/2, travelling, China

Coexisting, a magic valley

Content

1. Foreword

book 1, beginning

1. The beauty of modern slavery, at the conference
2. Exploitation, week 3

book 2/1, travelling

1. We are all for freedom, Brazil
2. Racism, colonialism and the superiority complex, South Africa
3. Slavery, South Africa
4. White Africans, South Africa
5. Raw materials, Flight to Sydney
6. Cheers to all the bastards, Australia
7. What’s best for humans, Australia
8. Brexit, and the EU needs a rethink, Australia

book 2/2, travelling

1. Balances, China
2. Going in circles, China
3. Refugees, Otaon
4. The time of the dwarfs, Romania
5. Second class humans, Romania
6. We can do better, on a global scale, Romania

additional extracts

1. Rethinking the way we do business, book 1
2. The Hub, a business model, book 1&2
3. dot.international, a business model, Australia
4. The flare up, at the conference

If you don’t mind some spoilers, then this is an extracts collection to get a better idea of what this series is about.

The Hub and dot.international are introduced in this collection, for more details see the Let’s build the Hub and be done with the tech giants and dot.international.

This is a collection of sex-related discussions and incidents from book 1, beginning and book 2/1, travelling.

Extracts from book 2, travelling, and we need to talk about sex

Prelude, US

• Nudity

Happy Flying, US

• We need to talk about sex

San Francisco, US

• Urns
• Property
• Couple therapy for the body and the mind
• Sex jokes
• Perspectives
• LGBTQ+
• Homosexuality, an intrusion?

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• Copacabana Beach
  • What’s wrong with a girls night?
  • Hoping to be liked
  • So, what’s wrong with a girls night?
  • Traumatic run-ins with women
  • What’s the idea of a girls night?
  • Women prison and inferiority complex
  • A world run by women
  • I never wanted to be a woman
  • Trouble with the body
  • Limping
  • Boys night and penis length
  • Prejudice, unwelcome news, and news from the girls night
  • Evasive gender

• This is Rio , best place for gays

Buenos Aires, Argentina

• You have to fuck
• Your dick is not a weapon
• Abortion and the Catholic Church
• Trustworthy men
• Sex and populism
• Sex talk, a journey
• Exploring why we do stupid things
• Why does fear smell?

South Africa

• Friends
• Colours of the skin, HIV and a priest
• De-scandalising sex

Sydney, Australia

• Outfits, and urns rebooted
• Sexiness as weapon among women?

Time off, Australia

• Beauty

Extracts from book 1, beginning, or drafting a town experiment

• The vilification of the body
• Porn
• Happy parents
• Why don’t you have children?
• Pregnancy nightmare
• Gendered outfits
• Singledom
• Losing it
• Sexual orientation
• One night stands, affairs, relationships and marriage
• Who rescues who?
• Jerks of my mother’s making
• Role models
• Abortion

This collection includes extracts from both parts of book 2, travelling.

While the issues are very serious, there is also humour and some intriguing speculations.

book 2/2, travelling

1. Domestic violence, Flight to Beijing
2. The penis trauma, Flight to Beijing
3. Bulges and urges, Russia
4. Making each other, Otaon
5. Is this how rape happens? Romania

book 2/1, travelling

1. Your dick is not a weapon, your breasts are not a means to an end, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2. Nku killed her, Cape Town, South Africa

While writing book 2, the topic of racism kept knocking on my door and kept finding ways to get into the story.

The extracts of this collection focus on the racism which is handed down from generation to generation.

The main piece, Breaking the Cycle, is a movie (so far only in the story), and it is retold by Jack Harris, a famous actor and one of the main characters in the book series.

The additional pieces, I am Walter Kunze and White Africans add thoughts about the guilt of our ancestors.

Content

• Foreword

• I am Walter Kunze, Argentina

Breaking the Cycle, South Africa

• A few days earlier
• Before Jack tells the story
• Breaking the cycle

• White Africans, South Africa

Jack Harris, one of the main characters in the book series, is a famous actor. He splits his time between the town project and his movie career.
Some of his movies are just mentioned in the story, some are recounted by him and, in the case of the Invention of Evil, Jack and Alice watch his movie together.

The monk

The invention of evil

How would you tell your experiment succeeded?

Extracts from book 2/2, Otaon and some additional on the fictitious art of deep energies from several parts in book 2

As a child, I loved the stories of Sinbad and Ali Baba. And when I thought about the travelling team’s visit to the Middle East, I wanted to capture some of this magic, and allow a whiff of fairy tales into the story.
This is one of the reasons why I eventually decided to let the travelling team visit a fictional, ancient kingdom in the Middle East and, of course, I called it Otaon.

Content

Foreword

The story of Princess Marlana and her guards in black

The story of the hunters fountain and the observer

The story of the snake, the witch and the mountain

The library and the story of the philosopher’s study and a special mind

These are often short extracts, but they have a magic of their own.