Do I remember correctly that one of the major characters in what we would now call an influencer with always-on video glasses? I think his spectacles get slashdotted at one point.
I’m not sure which is the greater anachronism got me. That I didn’t find the idea of endless surveillance creep glasses bothersome at the time I read the book or that slashdotting is in itself a once current, now newly archaic term.
For another always-on video glasses treatment, I really liked this short film from 2016: https://vimeo.com/166807261
I read it as a sort of prisoner's dilemma. If I'm being tracked and monitored everywhere I go, then it's in my best interests to do the same
The difference between Manfred and the influencers we have now was that he actually invented things, built things, and brokered huge deals while streaming everything.