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		Spooky23 on Nov 24, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analyt... It wasn’t that prescient. GroupWise allowed that in the 90s. I knew a few psycho manager types who were angry when I moved them to Exchange because they would track who opened their messages and yell at them if it wasn’t fast enough. :)

sp332 on Nov 25, 2020 | [–]

Snow Crash was satire of a genre of sci-fi story, so while it may have popularized some ideas I don't think it was trying to be prescient. Entertaining though :)

EvanAnderson on Nov 24, 2020 | [–]

My wife worked in a GroupWise shop in the early 2000's and apparently there was tracking-related political intrigue and drama. >sigh<

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