From: "Andrew Hime"
quoted 4 lines seek wrote:
> seek wrote:
> > His thing as Stephen Bury - 'Interface' - was prescient:
> > http://www.sandm.co.uk/mary/sfjournm/Interface/interface.html
> > "Just how do you get elected President of America these days? You can sink a political career
on TV
quoted 1 line in a few minutes if you make enough of fool of yourself; on the other hand if you look and
> > in a few minutes if you make enough of fool of yourself; on the other hand if you look and
sound
quoted 1 line good enough you can sway the nation. All you need to know is how well you're going do
> > good enough you can sway the nation. All you need to know is how well you're going down with
the
quoted 2 lines voters. Take a politician who's had a biochip implanted into his brain, linked to the
> > voters. Take a politician who's had a biochip implanted into his brain, linked to the computers
> > that analyse the responses of the specially chosen market research volunteers, who represent
the
quoted 1 line heights and depths of the great American people and you can work out exactly what you need
> > heights and depths of the great American people and you can work out exactly what you need to
say
quoted 2 lines to get your candidate elected. And then you control the President. Which is handy if you&#
> > to get your candidate elected. And then you control the President. Which is handy if you're a
> > worldwide conspiracy wanting to get a firmer grip on the nation to stop the Treasury reneging
on
quoted 1 line the national debt and undermining all your investments."
> > the national debt and undermining all your investments."quoted 2 lines Thing is, if you go back and read Stephenson's books, he's eerily
> Thing is, if you go back and read Stephenson's books, he's eerily
> prescient throughout. This is hardly the first time he's called the future.
I don't have the time to go back and read those tomes, not if I'm going
to get through the new trilogy!!! ;)
More shots of an obviously-wired GWBush, from the official White House site:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/08/images/20020809-1_ranch4-765v.html
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/08/images/20020809-1_ranch5-729v.html
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/08/images/20020809-1_ranch8-515h.html
"Cryptonomicon (1999) is a sprawling novel by Neal Stephenson that is more a combination of
historical fiction and contemporary techno-thriller than the science fiction of Stephenson's
earlier works. It follows the parallel saga of cryptographers from World War II (see U-413, U-553,
U-691, Enigma machine, Alan Turing, Bletchley Park) and their descendants attempting to use modern
cryptography to build a data haven in a fictitious East Asian island state and the political
machinations that follow both efforts.
A few months after 'Cryptonomicon' was released, someone stole an Enigma Machine from Bletchley
Park:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/948625.stm
Friday, 29 September, 2000
"Police investigating the disappearance of one of the last remaining Enigma code-breaking machines
say they are baffled by the latest correspondence from the person claiming to own it."
seek
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