Everyone should read Vernor Vinge's "Rainbows End" to understand a plausible outcome of the technological change we are witnessing today. It's a bittersweet bo

Everyone should read Vernor Vinge's "Rainbows End" to understand a plausible outcome of the technological change we are witnessing today. It's a bittersweet book, about being a small human in a world where the value of individual creative efforts are overwhelmed by the sheer might of automation and vast collaboration and technological accumulation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End You will recognize Pokemon Go, and many other things that happened after the book was published (2006). Great foresight. Wikipedia: Vernor Vinge is an American science fiction author and retired professor. He taught mathematics and computer science at San Diego State University. He is the first wide-scale popularizer of the technological singularity concept and perhaps the first to present a fictional "cyberspace" (in his novella True Names). He also wrote "A Fire Upon the Deep" and "A Deepness in the Sky", but those are more escapist.