sbb -> recommend -> more on Ender's Game

I realized that Neal Stephenson must have taken inspiration from a number of elements of Ender's Game when he was writing The Diamond Age - for example, the similarities between the computer-created immersion game that Ender plays and the 'Primer' are very strong (no subversion in Ender's world though).

Card predicts the importance of the global network very accurately - his 'nets' build off the newsgroup concept, but the idea of anonymous (or not) kids (or "ordinary" adults) influencing the world through their writing is here already, in a slightly different form, with the explosion of weblogs.

To cite a few of the innumerous examples:

• Aaron Swartz just got his learner's permit, he also spoke at a number of technology conferences in 2002.
  
• Glenn Reynolds was a fairly obscure law professor in Tennessee before his self-maintained, spare time weblog became one of the most popular on the Internet.
  
• Matt Drudge, the father of renegade online journalism (he broke the Lewinsky scandal back in 97/98), received over 100 million hits in February 2003 to his self-maintained, one page site.)