Rainbows End
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Rainbows End
Vernor Vinge
8 people recommended it in 5 threads, 2013–2023.
What people on Hacker News said
One traces the history of computing from inception to roughly 1990, the other feels like it picks it up around 2030.
Fiction, near future. Not a biggie but an easy read and changed my opinion on possible futures.
Rainbows End is great. It pretty much predicts wearable computing and Google Glass.
In Rainbows End, vinge argues that a more educated masses allows for the more random, asymmetric terrorism, which gets even much worse when you think of CRISPR, etc.
Where it comes up
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