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This is the plot of most of Ghost in the Shell. That series looks more and more prescient as time goes on. Another big plot point is that most of the internet is just AIs talking to each other. 10 years ago that sounded ridiculous, now not so much.


"Ralfi was sitting at his usual table. Owing me a lot of money. I had hundreds of megabytes stashed in my head on an idiot savant basis, information I had no conscious access to. Ralfi had left it there. He hadn't, however, came back for it." -- Johnny Mnemonic, William Gibson, 1981


Also how super-sensitive may be kept on physical books and papers, albeit in a form scannable by optic implants.


If you're a gamer, you should try Cyberpunk2077 :D Currently playing it, at over 200 hours, and it really feels like a scarily accurate, techno-dystopian version of our world.




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