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jf
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Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web sear...
It wouldn't be the first prescient thing Neal Stephenson has put in a book. Whenever I see Google Earth, I think of Snow Crash.
acon
on Jan 6, 2011
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Since Google Earth was inspired by Snow Crash I'm not sure you can classify it as prescient in the same way.
astrange
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What do you mean? I don't remember any of the interesting parts of Snow Crash being about 3D globes with search results on them.
waterlesscloud
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See excerpt here (also links to interview with a google earth cofounder explicitly crediting snowcrash for inspiration)
http://ogleearth.com/2005/09/snow-crash-redux/
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