Another of his books Snow Crash, which is kind of precursor to Diamond Age had some pretty interesting predictions. I read somewhere stuff like Second Life, Go

Another of his books Snow Crash, which is kind of precursor to Diamond Age had some pretty interesting predictions. I read somewhere stuff like Second Life, Google Earth etc were directly inspired by Snow Crash. There's some other themes in Snow Crash we are just starting to see as well: -Government difficulties with taxation of digital goods and currency -Companies competing to attract drivers/messengers etc (basically the uber/gig ecconomy) -For profit surveillance and commercialization of intelligence data