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Haha, in Stephenson's latest we find he is even more than that!

• peteforde 7y ago
  Spoilers, people. ;) Cory Doctorow has often said that good sci-fi doesn't predict the future so much as anticipate the present. Let's not lose sight of the fact that Cryptonomicon came out in 1999. While there were early cryptocurrencies that all went nowhere, Stephenson was a good decade ahead of the BTC paper. It could also be argued that his particular focus on the obliteration of sensitive emails being kept on private servers was unnervingly prescient, too.