Schismatrix is 27 years... Honestly, that's still pretty new in sci-fi terms. The genre is older than most people think! Off the top of my head, I can't think

Schismatrix is 27 years... Honestly, that's still pretty new in sci-fi terms. The genre is older than most people think! Off the top of my head, I can't think of anything more recent that describes such structures as evocatively as those novels. They seem to have fallen out of fashion a little, which is a shame.