A lot of that has to do with the age of the information technology. There's been a great deal of science fiction written about space ships and aliens, throughou

A lot of that has to do with the age of the information technology. There's been a great deal of science fiction written about space ships and aliens, throughout the last century, but the concept of an information economy emerged, quite to humanity's surprise, rather recently. Science fiction of the digital bent hasn't had much time to mature.