Grasping Reality

This book may well have been written 40 years ago, with each chapter, I had the impression of reading the news of the moment!
Brunner does the gifts of clairvoyance and he directly wrote what he saw?

The reflections on the limited natural resources of this planet, the truths about the conduct of an army, the evocation of the division of Belgium, genetic manipulation, the creation of a natural park for orangutans .... all topics that I found together in the novel and in the newspapers of the day's news! Disturbing!

But rather than having a gift of clairvoyance, I think Brunner and as one of its main characters, a "synthéticien". He managed to get a snapshot of current trends, and extrapolated them in the future. Exercise it!

Only area where Brunner crashed is IT. We find in "Stand on Zanzibar" the notion of a single computer that know everything whereas the current reality shows us that IT has evolved in the direction of the interconnection between millions of computers.