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So, I found this book in a friends-of-the-library, take-em-by-the-bag-because-nobody-wants-'em sale.

I'm still fond of it. It's not great. But it's got some great parts. And it's actually fairly predictive.

Thing is, this was written in the late nineties and it does a damn good job of pegging our current surveillance-society.

It also gets down to the bare truth about what space is going to be like once we're actually doing stuff up there like building space stations and solar power plants and whatnot. We're going to get people up there to weld beams together all day. And they are going to be awfully bored up there.

On the downside, you realize that the author likes the Greatful Dead and rolling fatties a little too much... ( )