I've read the two novels more than once and don't see them as particularly predictive or aspirational.
The Peace War explores the effect of a takeover of society by the people who have just developed (and are the sole owners) of a radical new form of physics (the stasis fields, aka bobbles), and the ensuing counter-revolution (led by that society's equivalent of hackers). I don't think that Vinge was actually predicting that we would fight wars using stasis fields.
Marooned in Realtime is set so far into the future that is doesn't appear to analogise modern society or technology. To me, it's basically a framework for some good character-led interactions.
The Peace War explores the effect of a takeover of society by the people who have just developed (and are the sole owners) of a radical new form of physics (the stasis fields, aka bobbles), and the ensuing counter-revolution (led by that society's equivalent of hackers). I don't think that Vinge was actually predicting that we would fight wars using stasis fields.
Marooned in Realtime is set so far into the future that is doesn't appear to analogise modern society or technology. To me, it's basically a framework for some good character-led interactions.