Distraction

+1 for Distraction, and indeed most of BruceS's works. Incredible, visionary stuff. "Heavy Weather" is probably the book of his that's most similar to Distraction - also very very good.

Bruce Sterling's Distraction. He touches on net-smart nomads, technology-driven disruption and the resulting unemployment, gridlock in congress, something similar to the Occupy movement in DC, a trade war with China that ended when they dumped all US IP online, a war referred to as 'Iraq 3', etc. This is seriously impressive considering that it was published in 1998. My current hypothesis is that he's a time traveller messing with us.