Ahh. Makes sense. Sometimes I forgot how prescient that book was.
I read it after a lot of the predictions had already come true. In some cases it felt like the books tech was just an alternative to tech we already had by the time I read it, and while reading it I had to remind myself that when it was written we were still a year out from the iPhone.
> I never read Synthetic Serendipity though so you got me curious. It's a short story based on a couple of chapters in the book. I think that some versions of the book included it? Either way you can read it here: