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So google earth was released soon after 1992?

• sp332 14y ago
  The style of writing was near-future, not the actual tech :)
  • excuse-me 14y ago
    Yes - 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 ago
      I 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 ago
          IIRC 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.