snow crash the part where they go to see the librarian, and he's got this really cool thing. it's a globe that you can like turn and zoom in and stuff and see anywhere in the world with any map in the world, and we all read it in, what, 1990 [ed. note: 1992] was when snow crash came out, something like that.
i was like, "man, that's cool. i wish we'd have that." now we all have it in our pocket. we're beyond where he was. he had to actually go to some dude's house in order to see this thing. we all have that crap in our pocket now. 