I've been waiting for @cstross to finish the Halting State series but at last update, he appeared to opine that fiction was getting too close to reality. Thus he has declined to finish the series.

I felt this was a bit of a cop out at the time. The Halting State series had us thinking about these issues, which I think is better than not thinking, writing, and debating them. If reality is catching up to fiction, then write about reality, don't be afraid of it.