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It is even more notable because it is about the first book to ever describe the internet (although the book calls it the data-net) as something prevalent in everyone's everyday life. If you read it when it came out, you might have trouble understanding why the threat to destroy the data-net is taken as almost the ultimate threat. Today, it is pretty easy to realize the economic and other disasters that would happen.
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* [[The Cracker]]: This is how the government sees Nick.
* [[Deus Est Machina]]: Well, the machine isn't exactly God, but it does see all and the ending is, without giving it away, interesting.
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* [[The Mafia]]: {{spoiler|We find out they are running the government}}.
** [[Redesigning Eva (Darth Wiki)|Natasha Grant]] must've been having a hell of a time.
* [[My Country, Right or Wrong]]: {{spoiler|Again, Paul Freeman before his [[Heel Face Turn]]}}.
* [[The Neidermeyer]]: Freeman's boss.
* [[Prophecy Twist]]: The Delphi pool.
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