A group of idealistic young hackers and computer whizzes exposes all of the government ’s closed book – sound familiar ? It ’s the plot of John Brunner ’s 1975 novel , Shockwave Rider , which some are call a precursor to Wikileaks .
In Shockwave Rider , activist Nick Haflinger make a computing machine worm ( this novel invented that Holy Scripture ) which is plan to “ destruct all secrecy , ” and when it ’s free , details of all of the government ’s clandestine behaviour are released to the public , sparking outrage and bearing of unpatriotic deportment .
the great unwashed have been comparing Wikileaks to Shockwave Rider all over the Internet — it ’s hard to tell where the meme got get down .
reason out Technovelgy , “ So , what we need now is a suitable mash - up app for our phones that will rive down appropriate WikiLeaked data during our web surfriding . Developers ? ”
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