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Title: Predictions for the Future that WILL BE
Review: Some novels you read for entertainment value and soon forget. Others stick with you, haunt you, seem to be whispering in your ear for years afterward. Scary as that may sound, Rainbow's End is like that. As I read this book years ago, I kept thinking, Vinge is right--this is how the future WILL BE. Computers that we wear. An omnipotent network that allows total connectivity--except where the nodes are scarce. The ability to roll back the clock via genetic treatments. The power of social networking that makes the hive the force to be reckoned with. High school what grad school used to. Technology invading the most intimate privacy. And none of that has anything to do with the riveting plot and imaginatively drawn characters. Just saw an article the other day for computers that are contact lenses. Vinge's sci-fi is coming true. Bit by bit. Must read this again. Brilliant. And profoundly scary.
