"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