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Obligatory plug for everyone to read The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner. It was published in 1975 and nails the technology of the 90s so accurately that it's q
by autarch 9y ago
Obligatory plug for everyone to read The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner. It was published in 1975 and nails the technology of the 90s so accurately that it's quite freaky to read.
- adjkant 9y agoIn the same category a bit, Neuromancer. Note the publish date, 1984. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/888628.Neuromancer https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/888628.Neuromancer
- icebraining 9y agoWhat did Neuromancer predict?
- ThinkingGuy 9y agoBlack denim :)
- adjkant 9y agoThere's an argument it inspired the internet or caused us to create it.
- icebraining 9y agoWell, if it managed to inspire the creation of the Internet a decade after Cerf et all actually created it, that is truly remarkable!
- adjkant 9y agoSorry, not well said. Via Wikipedia: "In his afterword to the 2000 re-issue of Neuromancer, fellow author Jack Womack goes as far as to suggest that Gibson's vision of cyberspace may have inspired the way in which the Internet developed (particularly the World Wide Web), after the publication of Neuromancer in 1984. He asks "[w]hat if the act of writing it down, in fact, brought it about?" (269)."
- icebraining 9y agoAh, fair enough. I guess I don't see much similarities. Then again, having been born after the book was published, I suppose that I was shaped by the very world imagined in the novel, and so I might be unable to analyze it objectively the way readers born decades before can.
- whatusername 9y agoOf course there is the fine line between predicting future technology and inspiring future technology.