The shockwave rider

The Shockwave Rider is a dystopian science fiction novel by John Brunner, published in 1975. Edit work source text

Criticism sees the novel as one of the first predecessors of the cyberpunk genre; in part, it is assigned to the New Wave literature.

Inspired by Alvin Toffler's Future Shock and The Third Wave, the novel shows a 21st century America dominated by computer networks.

It is noteworthy that the protagonist uses cracking skills to escape the networks. In many details the present world is foreshadowed, for example in the term worm for a program that perpetuates itself in a computer network itself, or in the description of a computer network, comparable or identical to the Internet, but far in advance of its actual institutionalization , The idea of ​​swarm intelligence is sketched.

A few services and effects of the internet, such as the possibility of online grief boxes, viruses and worms, or the rapid and "total" dissemination of information, are directly or indirectly foreseen and described by Brunner. The discussion about the concept of a "global village", which goes back to Marshall McLuhan, may serve as a model for the global distribution of television and travel. Edit outputtext Weblinks Edit sourcetext

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