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I guess this is minor, but why does it say 1997 in the title? I can't find the year anywhere in the story or in these comments.



The top line in the article is "( This short story is from the October 2007 issue of Radar magazine. )".

1997 would make Cory Doctorow amazingly prescient, as Google was only a research project and not officially a company at that time.


And the DHS didnt exist




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