I hadn't heard of Shockwave Rider (thanks for the ref), but the Cyberpunk worlds of Blade Runner, William Gibson (Neuromancer, etc. -- he invented the term cyberspace, I believe), Bruce Sterling, and Neal Stephenson seem to have been highly prophetic.
On an employment log blog that I read someone posted a figure that 80% of employers (it may have been employers over a certain size) monitor their employees' computer use, language used, websites visited, usually with a spy program. The usual alleged reason is "to prevent sexual harassment" liability.
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Sep 19, 2007, at 3:05 PM, Dwayne Monroe quoted:
>
> > Two little known companies in the Homeland
> Security
> > Complex announced they have landed a contract with
> an
> > unnamed major Asian country
>
> That would be China, no doubt.
>
> > Retentia
>
> > Xalted
>
> > Intelligentias
>
> It's hard to believe these names are real, but they
> seem to be. Life
> is a dystopic novel?
>
> Doug
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