{"id":146385,"date":"2026-02-18T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146385"},"modified":"2026-02-18T11:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T11:00:08","slug":"why-an-open-source-sci-fi-novel-by-chinas-tech-geeks-is-going-strong-after-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146385","title":{"rendered":"Why an open-source sci-fi novel by China\u2019s tech geeks is going strong after 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostYears before China\u2019s DeepSeek stunned the world with its powerful open-source AI model, Chinese tech geeks began experimenting with the openness ethos through a collaboratively written open-source novel, still going strong after nearly two decades.<br \/>\nWith millions of words spanning nearly 3,000 chapters, The Morning Star of Linggao has been crowd-written by thousands of contributors \u2013 mostly tech geeks, engineers, military enthusiasts and STEM professionals \u2013 who insert themselves as characters in&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/3343906\/why-open-source-sci-fi-novel-chinas-tech-geeks-going-strong-after-20-years?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostYears before China\u2019s DeepSeek stunned the world with its powerful open-source AI model, Chinese tech geeks began experimenting with the openness ethos through a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146385"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}