This was predicted by Stephenson in The Diamond Age.
It sounded perfectly horrible when I read it then as fiction, but reading it now as reality, I find myself filled with an unpleasant sensation of dread and loathing that well surpasses my previous response.
Every day, I become more and more convinced that I'm living in a dystopian "mirror" universe like the one on Star Trek where the humans are all evil, and somewhere out there, there's a "prime" universe where humans are generally good and things are generally improving.
It sounded perfectly horrible when I read it then as fiction, but reading it now as reality, I find myself filled with an unpleasant sensation of dread and loathing that well surpasses my previous response.