TCM Wrote: > The second is my favorite, by far. Robinson captures the essence of OC's > crowds, the surfers, the burbclaves (years before Stephenson's "Snow > Crash," _also_ set in California!).
Hmm. My OC burbclave just installed a laser-barcode scanner to admit cars. (The barcodes are discrete black on black in the visible and work in the IR; in my night vision device the barcode is quite visible.) I haven't seen pizza-carrying teens use dupes of the barcodes to skate inside, but its possible...