As experiences like Ingress arrive, Vernor Vinge's 2006 novel "Rainbows End" looks more and more like a checklist of inevitabilities. For a relevant sampling,

As experiences like Ingress arrive, Vernor Vinge's 2006 novel "Rainbows End" looks more and more like a checklist of inevitabilities. For a relevant sampling, the short story 'Synthetic Serendipity' is online at: http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/synthetic-serendipity http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/synthetic-serend...