Disclaimer: I'm an unabashed fan of Neal Stephenson's writing, to the point where I have read everything he's written more than once. That said... Unsurprising

Disclaimer: I'm an unabashed fan of Neal Stephenson's writing, to the point where I have read everything he's written more than once. That said... Unsurprisingly, Neal Stephenson was ahead of the curve here yet again. From The Diamond Age, published in 1995: > “One of the insights of the Victorian Revival was that it was not necessarily a good thing for everyone to read a completely different newspaper in the morning; so the higher one rose in the society, the more similar one's Times became to one's peers'.”