The Shockwave Rider

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Some of the methods include keeping the university aware of potential threats, informing them of the university’s safety decisions, and having safety services constantly available. An organization aim is to make a profit and have a sustainable competitive advantage, as such Soca- Hype accomplished this with the Rollie Pollie Rider (RR).

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It seems Nickie was something of a genius as a kid and one day he was 'adopted' by Tarnover, a government 'think tank' that sought to train the next generation of 'leaders' for America. Even better it comes here with two other Brunner novels as a bonus (I read this in a SF Gateway collection I couldn't find here).

At the time (1975), not only was ARPANet, the internet's predecessor very limited, the first actual network worm wouldn't be launched for another 13 years (Brunner originated the term in this novel). The Shockwave Rider, like Brunner’s other major works, is set in a near-future America that has undergone political and social change.

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All of a sudden a man no older than his thirties, but pot-bellied, who had been in a seat near the back of the hall, came yelling down the aisle. In his early 20s, Brunner placed an ad in the personal column of the London Weekly Advertiser and met his wife, Marjorie Sauer, a divorcee 14 years his senior. John Brunner wrote four major novels, each of them set fifty years ahead of the date when he was writing. The Shockwave Rider concludes with reflections on the importance of individual freedom, the power of information, and the potential for societal change.The Crown has today dropped the last remaining case in the Treasury Fire Engine Trial after the jury acquitted five of the six defendants of conspiracy to commit criminal damage to His Majesty’s Treasury building by a majority verdict at Southwark Crown Court earlier this month.

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Less edgy tech-wise, but equally powerful from an existentialist perspective in a world replete with data, the novel ends on a note more like Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed than Neuromancer. This brings him into contact with Ina's daughter, Kate, who attracts him despite her plain appearance and simple lifestyle. In an age when we have more choice than ever before, more mobility, more information, more opportunity to fulfill ourselves, how is it that people can prefer to be identical? Now he was arrow-rigid, and his voice boomed in huge resounding periods like the tolling of a death bell. Indeed, the most common ailment people complain of is a fear that someone has more information/data then they do and that this information asymmetry will be used to harm them (and it is!

The similarities and differences between money, class, and family values in the stories are much more significant because they have more affect on each story and on the reader. In place of the old system, Nick has designed the worm to enforce a kind of utilitarian socialism, with people's worth being defined by their roles in society, not their connections in high places. At the time this was written we barely had phones with keys instead of rotary dials, and Brunner has his hero typing codes into phones to change his identity to get away from the attack. Brunner explores the consequences of a society where individuals are constantly monitored and their personal data is weaponized. We need an entirely different way of existing on this unique, imperiled planet—a way that many Indigenous people are still familiar with.