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In Kim Stanley Robinson's 1993 sf novel "Red Mars" a member of the first Mars colonization mission also works for news agencies back on Earth and wears "camera
by alex_stoddard 13y ago
In Kim Stanley Robinson's 1993 sf novel "Red Mars" a member of the first Mars colonization mission also works for news agencies back on Earth and wears "camera glasses". I forget the exact arc of the subplot but as I recall they resign and refuse to wear the 'glasses' anymore because they were ostracized by the rest of the crew.
- lotsofcows 13y agoSnowcrash was 1992. People who are thoroughly wired are referred to disparagingly as "gargoyles".
- aeontech 13y agoHoly shit, you just made me realize Snow Crash is coming to reality (for certain parts of it) faster than expected :)
- jacques_chester 13y agoPeople who work at places like Google have been known, from time to time, read science fiction. A lot of it comes true because someone says "yes, good idea".
- jholman 13y agoIf only someone would make real-life versions of those flip-open communicators from Star Trek TOS. Maybe someone at Motorola could do that. Or, on the subject of Snow Crash, if only someone would make that thing in Snow Crash called Earth. (Though if they did make it and then Motorola bought it, I expect they'd name it Motorola Earth, which sounds dumb. Unless someone bought Motorola first.)
- jacques_chester 13y agoAnd I first read about iPads in Futuretrack Five.
- pavel_lishin 13y agoOn this topic, check out REAMDE - one of the characters makes a reference to ripping off Google Earth, but not feeling bad about it because Google Earth itself was directly inspired by something someone had read in a science fiction novel.