"Charles Brabham" wrote in message
m...

"Hank Oredson" wrote in message
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Google for "hipcrime".


Hipcrime (as a term) was coined in the late 1960's by the sci-fi writer
John
Brunner, in his novel "Stand on Zanzibar". Brunner raised a number of
sociological issues in "Stand on Zanzibar" that were considered to be
really
"out there" at the time of publication, but that turned out to be everyday
stuff by the time the 1990's rolled around. He did a better job than many
have done at peering into the future, and deserves credit for that.

Somebody thought the "Hipcrime vocabulary" in Brunner's novel was neat,
and
decided to steal the name and concept to describe their own actions. They
missed out on the most interesting idea in the novel though... A running,
mythical sociological text entitled "You Are an Ignorant Idiot", that was
put forward in the novel by means that are commonly described as "the
blogosphere" today. Brunner never got credit for foreseeing the
blogosphere
but if you read his novel, it is there in plain sight for all to see. Only
the name "blog" is missing.

Charles, N5PVL


Yup. Perhaps the author of the original hipcrime software
was a Brunner fan :-)

That book is kicking around here somewhere, in a box probably.
Something like 35 boxes of books that have not gotten unpacked
since our move in '97, most piled in the library, but others scattered
here and there. Most of the sci-fi is still lurking in the boxes.

The newsgroup attacks have somewhat abated now ... but every
now and then a few turn up. I've gotten a few via email as well.

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... Hank

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