This is your reminder that Orson Scott Card, Hugo Award winner, wrote about a global hegemonic government created and led by someone who became popular because he posted on forums and sounded insightful.
so when is baby newton to take charge against homofascist revisionism from the commanding heights of the economy?
scifi in general's technofetishism has left it at an impasse and now it produces all the dystopian futures except the one most likely to actually happen... but william gibson is/was cool.