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		wintermutestwin on Sept 1, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: William Gibson is a literary genius >Corporations and elites have won class warfare (control of media and political parties - game over) Yes, and I would add that mass surveillance is the checkmate...

ethbr0 on Sept 1, 2021 | [–]

The primacy of the infosphere (in the sense of the shadow cloud of information that exists behind all of us now) is a pretty huge hit too.

Not sure many others saw that coming in the mid-90s.

mark_l_watson on Sept 1, 2021 | [–]

I agree. We should talk on the phone sometime - I recognize your HN user name from prior comments.

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