Something like a 3rd of every CPU is government property in that novel.
It's basically a Chinese-survalience (only worse) level society, but less authoritarian/draconian.
Vernor wrote it a couple years after 9/11 IIRC, and tried to imagine how societies would addapt to the threat of terrorism in a high-tech society that makes it easy for individuals to cause lots of damage.
He envisioned all hardware and software requiring backdoors as I've stated. I find it funny that intel ME came out around a year later. This means intel was probably developing that stuff while he was writing the novel.
I have to wonder if he had friends on the inside who straight up told him what they were doing and why,
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Lots of shills in this thread.
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Wow. Just wow.
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Europeons need to burn in a tar-pit. Disgusting
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Why is there so much racism in this thread?