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Considering that one of the cool toys in this story was the inspiration for Google Earth, yeah, most people might not be too impressed. I love the story (love m
by npsimons 14y ago
Considering that one of the cool toys in this story was the inspiration for Google Earth, yeah, most people might not be too impressed. I love the story (love most of Stephenson's works, quirks/"flaws" and all), but it was "20 minutes in the future" when it was released in 1992. Hopefully they'll keep the snarkiness towards capitalism and religion and won't do a whitewash on Hiro or Raven.
- darkarmani 14y agoSo google earth was released soon after 1992?
- sp332 14y agoThe style of writing was near-future, not the actual tech :)
- excuse-me 14y agoYes - odd to think that once the idea of the military being outsourced to Haliburton, 3D city models on your phone/glasses and a cyberspace landgrab for new domain names was in the future.
- mindcrime 14y agoI used to wonder when the cyberpunk future was going to happen. Then I realized it already has.
- waterlesscloud 14y ago"The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet."
- technomancy 14y agoIIRC the original quotation didn't have "yet", and Gibson has remarked that adding it misses the point; the idea that the future will ever be evenly distributed is naive.