I mean, aren't we kind of at a point where "predicted in Xyz science fiction novel" is a bit passe? Mankind is currently grappling with absolutely wild developm

I mean, aren't we kind of at a point where "predicted in Xyz science fiction novel" is a bit passe? Mankind is currently grappling with absolutely wild developments from every direction: the advent of AI, the collapse of birthrates globally, the advent of quantum cryptography threatening to make everybody's internet activity an open book, and the collapse of global ecosystems. If anything, Neal Stephenson did nothing more than mention a simple idea that was practically laying on the ground in broad daylight, and technology finally caught up to the point where it's implementable and deployable.