"When Hiro learned how to do this, way back fifteen years ago, a hacker could sit down and write an entire piece of software by himself. Now, that's no longer possible. Software comes out of factories, and hackers are, to a greater or lesser extent, assembly-line workers. Worse yet, they may become managers who never get to write any code themselves."
Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992
When I started reading Snow Crash and he described basically Uber/Doordash etc. in the first 10 pages I nearly fell off my chair. Insane how prescient Stephenson is.
I really, really hope Stephenson's Fall in Hell isn't prescient when it comes to the rise of Ameristan. That book plus Palahniuk's Adjustment Day are a terrifying glimpse of our boring dystopia morphing into complete dystopia.
