Storm on Nostr: Dan Simmons, Hyperion 1989. The more Sci Fi I've read over the past year or so, the ...
Dan Simmons, Hyperion 1989.
The more Sci Fi I've read over the past year or so, the more surprised I've been to find evidence that the idea of population level control via financial censorship and surveillance was well developed within certain niche cultural circles pre-mainstream adoption of the Internet.
The foresight of these writers is astounding. I have to imagine Dan Simmons at the time of writing Hyperion was witnessing the mainstream adoption of credit cards and *correctly* intuited that on a long enough time frame, this would lead to no-cash economies.
Maybe Dan Simmons was a cypherpunk. Either way, always feel humbled to find more little morsels of these ideas that have been integrated into Bitcoin appear before the 90s.
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