[CulturalNgineer]

Here's a vote for David Brin's novel "Earth"... full of amazingly prescient ideas regarding the social effects of communication technology, transparency... and especially his Helvetian War* as part of the backstory, though presented as metaphor... it's beginning to look entirely too possible!

* A 'financial war' when transparency results in the world population finding out that a lot of crooks have a lot of the world's wealth!

[torial]

For anyone that picks up the book, it is worth slogging through the boring first quarter of the book. After that point, each chapter gets better than the previous.