Sunday, August 18, 2019

The world of tomorrow

I finished reading William Gibson's Virtual Light the other day.  Originally published in 1993, it successfully predicted:

  • augmented reality
  • drones (armed drones, no less)
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger's move into politics
  • a black President of the U.S. (admittedly that one was a popular take in '90s sci-fi, but still)
  • the rise of couriers and the gig economy, admittedly presented as more a messenger than a delivery service, but hey
Not bad for under three hundred pages.

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