Peter Diamandis was getting great reviews for Abundance and then Space X, which he'd been working on, successfully launched the first private rocket for space exploration this week. This author believes that THINGS might get better. In the meantime, who argues with people who get their private rocket ship off the ground? Another proof about imitation:One aim of private launches is to collect minerals from asteroids. That's what's happening in Earth Unaware, the novelization of Orson Scott Card's graphic novel, a prequil to the Ender series. A final example is Gregory Benford's Great Sky River and Tides of Light, (Gabrielle DeCuir and Stefan Rudnicki produced Benford and Card, they're wonderful.) In Benford's future world there are usb ports down our spines to hold the personalities of dearly beloved. He also has a way of transporting images from retina to retina. A video on Google goggles came out a month ago. It's all Benford.
