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What's the lineage and what are examples of this concept in (science) fiction? There's Snow Crash and Rainbows End, but what else?
by harshreality 10y ago
What's the lineage and what are examples of this concept in (science) fiction? There's Snow Crash and Rainbows End, but what else?
- doublerebel 10y agoDennou Coil (anime tv series) is one of my favorites, and the kind of AR I hope we actually see. Less overwhelming and commercial and more functional and restrained. Also I consider the "datumplane" from Hyperion novels to provide a lot of the functionality of the modern AI-ssistent or AR tools we are currently imagining.
- jcl 10y agoFWIW, William Gibson's Spook Country has a protagonist who researches virtual geotagged art exhibits.
- maxerickson 10y agoIt features in some of Vinge's other works. I suppose particularly A Deepness in the Sky. Alistair Reynolds Revelation Space novels riff on it quite a lot, to the point of several characters that exist more on the augmented side of the reality than in the real world.