The top line in the article is "( This short story is from the October 2007 issue of Radar magazine. )". 1997 would make Cory Doctorow amazingly prescient, as

The top line in the article is "( This short story is from the October 2007 issue of Radar magazine. )". 1997 would make Cory Doctorow amazingly prescient, as Google was only a research project and not officially a company at that time.