On: Glasshole

[jacques_chester]

People who work at places like Google have been known, from time to time, read science fiction.

A lot of it comes true because someone says "yes, good idea".

[jholman → jacques_chester]

If only someone would make real-life versions of those flip-open communicators from Star Trek TOS. Maybe someone at Motorola could do that.

Or, on the subject of Snow Crash, if only someone would make that thing in Snow Crash called Earth. (Though if they did make it and then Motorola bought it, I expect they'd name it Motorola Earth, which sounds dumb. Unless someone bought Motorola first.)

[pavel_lishin → jholman]

On this topic, check out REAMDE - one of the characters makes a reference to ripping off Google Earth, but not feeling bad about it because Google Earth itself was directly inspired by something someone had read in a science fiction novel.

[jacques_chester → jholman]

And I first read about iPads in Futuretrack Five.