A couple of books later, we got *Cryptonomicon*, a finance novel that treated *money* as a technology, and, notably, did so across both a near-future setting and the historic setting of WWII. In addition to being a cracking novel, *Cryptonomicon* is exciting in that it treats the technological endeavors *of the past* in exactly the same way as it does the *imaginary* technological endeavors *of the future*.
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