I'm re-reading another Neal Stephenson book via audio. You can find way too much information about this story by looking at the innumerable "write-ups" about the story, so I am just mentioning this story, because Neal has predicted another technology. The novel was published in 1995 and the first advent of peer to peer file sharing was Napster in 1999. In the novel the world's communication system has been rebuilt using peer to peer file sharing. We can say that Neal anticipated this idea at least four years before it's actual advent.
This is one of the things I like about science fiction--the forward thinking and the imagination.
And if I come across someone who hates science fiction, I have to ask myself if the person is even intelligent. Perhaps such a person doesn't like to think for themselves. What is wrong with speculating about the future or thinking about things from a different perspective?
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