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		canistel on Feb 7, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Neal Stephenson was prescient about our AI age Cryptocurrency too - in Cryptonomicon. Not exactly as it is used today, but along similar lines...

p_l on Feb 7, 2024 [–]

Cryptocurrency was a hotly, if niche, debated topic in 1990s, which formed the backbone for Stephenson writing Cryptonomicon.

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