Earth
A microscopic black hole has accidently fallen into the Earth's core and the entire planet is in danger of being destroyed within two years.
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- The present just keeps making David Brin's 1990 book 'Earth' look more and more prescient.
- Vinge is certainly one of the greats but so is David Brin. I would not consider him under the radar though. Some of his best are Earth, The Heart of The Comet, Glory Season.
- Laws banning cameras will of course only cover some cameras and then you get all sorts of Orwellian visions.
See David Brin's "Earth" for some earlier thinking about the impact of public surveillance society.
I think the genie is out of the bottle, and far better that everyone who cares to can record what they see. Only the true gems of hilarious stupidity will make it to life changing levels of fame, and perhaps those featured in such clips can learn by and maybe profit from the experience.
the everyday stupid things we all do have already lost embarrassment value by virtue of being so widely published. Who cares if you catch someone picking their nose in an over the shoulder video now? You can take you shaky phone video of a carjacking to the police, but they may not even want to keep a copy: its unlikely to be of actual use to them.
- Also Max Headroom, Neuromancer, Robocop, and a host of others.
The first science fiction that I saw that deliberately bucked this trend was Earth by David Brin. There's a line something like "Can you believe that back in the late 20th century everybody thought Nihon was going to control the world's economy?"
- For this reason hard science novels are among my favorite.
The uplift cycle by David Brin is amazing.
The comment about Asimov misses reminds of another brin novel, Earth, that is known for envisioning several events and technology that appeared after its publication.
- Earth by David Brin, I think four times? It’s a really good pre-Internet look at a near future.
Cryptonomicon a couple of times, and I’m planning on Anathem again.
