The Earth application from Neal Stephenson's novel, Snow Crash, while not entirely responsible, was definitely inspirational in the creation of Google Earth.
Snow Crash inspires Google Earth
http://www.brownianemotion.org/2006/07/24/notes-on-the-origin-of-google-earth/
What other technologies or concepts have been linked to or inspired by this book?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash
http://slashdot.org/books/99/10/18/1049244.shtml
Hackers attack epileptics
http://gizmodo.com/373768/hackers-attack-epileptics-forum-with-snow-crash+like-seizure-inducing-gifs
Motorcycle airbag
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/24/wearable-air-bag.html
Snow Crash inspired Second Life then comes to Second Life
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,1930135,00.html
Sintered Armorgel
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/top/new-flexible-ski-armor-hardens-on-impact-155142.php
Smartwheels -> Michelin Tweel
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/03/automobiles/03cars.html?ex=1262494800&en=f8f420df5ca1261d&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt
The Deliverator becomes real
http://blog.tribalpizza.com/2007/07/the-birth-of-th.html
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1163
At least we will have a job in the fictional future:
"When it gets down to it
- talking trade balances here - once we've brain-drained all our technology
into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in
Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here - once our
edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships
and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a
nickel - once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities
and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani
brickmaker would consider to be prosperity - y'know what? There's only four
things we do better than anyone else
music
movies
microcode (software)
high-speed pizza delivery"
Sunday, March 30, 2008
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