Earth is almost frighteningly prescient. In fact, for all of the accolades heaped upon Gibson's Neuromancer, this is a far more accurate and real prediction of where we're headed. Next time you're wasting time customizing your Google home page or My Yahoo!, stop and think for just a second that Brin predicted exactly what you'd be doing almost 20 years ago. Even more interesting (or, possibly, unsettling) is that the more time passes the more eerily accurate Earth's vision of the future, and it's attendant global climate crisis, becomes.