The shock wave rider

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The Shockwave Rider (Original title: The Shockwave Rider ) is a dystopian science fiction - novel by John Brunner , who in 1975 was published.

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Critics see the novel as one of the first forerunners of the cyberpunk genre; partly it is assigned to the New Wave literature.

Inspired by Alvin Toffler's book Future Shock , the novel shows an America of the 21st century that is dominated by computer networks.

It is noteworthy that the protagonist uses cracking skills to evade the nets. In many details in today's world is anticipated, for example in the coining of the term worm for a program in a computer network itself perpetuates , or in the description of a computer network, similar or identical to the Internet , in time, however much real before its institutionalization . The idea of swarm intelligence is outlined.

Quite a few services and effects of the Internet, such as the possibility of online suggestion 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 the “ global village ”, which goes back to Marshall McLuhan , which accompanies the worldwide spread of television and travel , may have served as a model.

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  • John Brunner: The Shockwave Rider . Harper & Row, 1975, (first edition) ISBN 0-06-010559-3 .
  • John Brunner: The shock wave rider . Heyne, 1979, (German first edition) ISBN 3-453-30584-1 .
  • John Brunner: The shock wave rider . Heyne, 1992, (special edition) ISBN 3-453-04263-8 .

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