As a CS professor, Vernor was always familiar with then-current computing researcher(s) and practice, then extrapolated into stories. Hence: 1981 Arpanet => Tr

As a CS professor, Vernor was always familiar with then-current computing researcher(s) and practice, then extrapolated into stories. Hence: 1981 Arpanet => True Names' cyberspace, and lookahead to issues of identity and privacy 1992: USENET => FIre's galactic communication network, with mix of well-informed commenters, flamers and out-of-touch people 1999: smart dust => Deepness' localizers (note presentation by Pister 1997) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartdust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartdust 2006: Wikipedia revert wars => battles to enforce augment3ed reality perceptions As for issues of sensor nets and surveillance, at 2004 Foo Camp, Pam Samuelson and I did a session where I talked about the sensor net technology and she talked about issues of surveillance, privacy, law that were already surfacing ... even years before iPhones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_Camp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_Camp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Samuelson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Samuelson