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I mean, yeah, but the "post truth world" was a thing sometime within the G.W. Bush administration, and Stephen Colbert coined the word "truthiness" in 2005, so

• red-iron-pine 3y ago
  Stephenson covered similar ideas as far back as Snow Crash, in 1992. The "burb-claves" and how everyone ultimately paid to live in their own socio-economic bubble, complete with ethics and housing. literal walled gardens and group-think bubbles. Stephenson expanded on that in Diamond Age in '96