Makers is a novel by Canadian-British science fiction author Cory Doctorow released in October 2009.

The book focuses on a near-future imagining of members of the maker culture, a group Doctorow characterizes as being composed of "people who hack hardware, business-models, and living arrangements to discover ways of staying alive and happy even when the economy is falling down the toilet".

[2] The book is based on a near-future story of Lester and Perry, two hardware hackers, and Suzanne, a journalist.

Kettlewell, the CEO of Kodak and Duracell, becomes aware of this and sends the journalist Suzanne on site to report on it in her blog.

For instance, extremely fat people like Lester can take a gene-therapy, if they can afford it, and become slim no matter how much they eat.