market, that deal with the myriad of possibilities

involving the technology of the future. John Brunner's

book, "Shockwave Rider," is one of the most popular, as

well as one of the most famous, books dealing with this

issue. Brunner presents many different realities to the

reader, and they are all potentially very realistic in

terms of the current state of technology. For the most

part, Brunner seems to illustrate that technology, as it

relates to the world wide datanet, is a good thing. This

is not to say that he does not illustrate it as a very

negative reality in the world he presents to the reader,

but he does indicate that the world wide datanet and

technology has great potential to make the world a better

In Brunner's book we have a reality that is

incredibly tense, and almost plausible today. The space

that the author deals with is filled with endless bits of

information (information overload to be more precise),

corporate domination, and it appears, just like many

science fiction books that deal with the planet earth in

the future, everything is known about everyone. there are

most part, to make a great deal of decisions that affect

Although Brunner is clearly against technology such

us in many ways. We live in a world that has the ability

us that technology can be our friend and does have the

as the world wide datanet would produce, he is also

and often finds the most frightening reality to

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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)