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Look at Chapter 56 for a summary of the philosophical-linguistic underpinnings of the book

It's been entertaining so far. The idea that a kind of viral pathogen as a Babel moment in the time of Sumer is interesting...although seriously, racist much?

But all Feds go to work early and stay late. It’s a loyalty thing with them. The Feds have a fetish for loyalty—since they don’t make a lot of money or get a lot of respect, you have to prove you’re personally committed and that you don’t care about those trappings.

There’s laptops - he predicted the gig economy and centralized dispatch.

Good effort for 1992 but he severely underestimated the potential bandwidth of cellular signals.

VR is still pretty far away though.

Earth is real time google earth.

And infopocalypse is basically a souped up google assistant

He really underestimated the penetration rate of computer hardware devices.