Do you want to reference _The Shockwave Rider_?

[OtherMichael]

Continuing the discussion from Largest leak in history reveals world leaders and businesspeople hiding trillions in offshore havens:

@grimloki

I think we’ve reached the end of this book… (spoliers follow!)

The Shockwave Rider - Wikipedia

Wherein slowly the horrific shit that’s been kept secret is revealed, via a flood of leaks broadcast to the world.

Like THIS

Ransomware hackers steal a hospital. Again

Shockwave Rider [image]

or THIS

Psychological resiliency, defined

I am reminded of a favorite passage (about post-earthquake sociology) from a favorite novel : “I recall a point made in one of the Disasterville monographs. I think it was number 6. Stripped of the material belongings which had located them in society, a lot of refugees who formerly held responsible, status-high positions broke down into whining useless parasites. Leadership passed to those with more flexible minds – not only kids who hadn’t ossified yet, but adults who previously had been cal…

William Gibson: how I wrote Neuromancer

Shoot, if we’re talking awesome cyber books that might not get enough exposure, let me throw out a few others that I think are key shit: • John Brunner’s The Shockwave Rider, originally published in '75 I believe. Full on cyberpunk before it had even been invented yet! Crazy visionary. • Rudy Rucker’s Ware Tetralogy, beginning with '82’s Software. Awesome trippy spiritual cyberpunk masterpiece. Also check out his more recent Postsingular, which is a hoot! Rudy is awesome, he’s a mathematician …

or THIS

Key figures in CIA-crack cocaine scandal begin to come forward

Well, over the last year or so, I’ve heard lots of references to Orwell and 1984. However, I think John Brunner nailed it with The Shockwave Rider: modern government is organised crime.

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#THE RULES YOU FOLLOW THEM

1. Reference John Brunner’s prescient classic The Shockwave Rider in a thread
2. This can by by link, image, text, or combination of all three
3. The reference must be on-topic.
4. Weird bonus points for also referencing the Tofflers’ Future Shock

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[zfirphdn]

@OtherMichael

Weird bonus points for also referencing Alvin Toffler’s The Shock of the New

Hmm…I think Toffler’s is Future Shock, as shown in your images. (Written with his wife and uncredited co-author, Heidi Toffler.)

The Shock of the New would be the book and TV series by Robert Hughes, about Modern Art, no?

[Do I get any weird bonus points for this post? I am on topic for this thread, aren’t I?]

[OtherMichael]

Bonus points for finding my error.

YOU ALONE get extra bonus points for on-topic references to Rbt. Hughes’ The Shock of the New.

[zfirphdn]

Yay! I love it when @OtherMichael makes the rules