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So google earth was released soon after 1992?



The style of writing was near-future, not the actual tech :)


Yes - odd to think that once the idea of the military being outsourced to Haliburton, 3D city models on your phone/glasses and a cyberspace landgrab for new domain names was in the future.


I used to wonder when the cyberpunk future was going to happen. Then I realized it already has.


"The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet."


IIRC the original quotation didn't have "yet", and Gibson has remarked that adding it misses the point; the idea that the future will ever be evenly distributed is naive.




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