We have seen a shift toward increasing corporate influence which may eventually take government anti-roles similar to a Gibson dystopia. Most of what was in bo

We have seen a shift toward increasing corporate influence which may eventually take government anti-roles similar to a Gibson dystopia. Most of what was in both books required significant advances in biotech and automation. The advances we are seeing around crispr-cas9 and IoT may provide those tools. I am not a Luddite and I think advancement of tech is almost always beneficial (who uses that tech and how is the question). However, it may be premature to say they both ended up far wrong. They are still very important books to demonstrate the wrong ways to use technology. Edit: not that governments couldn't take the anti-roles back, but it would need a combination of increased technology and acceptance along with unfettered surveillance using that technology -- zero day Alexa bug for the NSA?