Snow Crash
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- Neal Stephenson is leaking again; When computer isn’t computer … 2 This is a full-on Neal Stephenson Snow Crash-esque headline if you’re asking me. You’ve got your big box store (albeit not one that …
- Kill Your Gods … 13] Which is a much better and catchier version of Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash Wasn’t A Manual. People [14] have been saying for a long time …
- What does it take to trust?; The Young Lady’s Illustrated Tour Guide … not, I suppose), a novel that gets much less attention than its sibling Snow Crash , perhaps because for one The Diamond Age was not written as a graphic …
- Free-range, Organic, and Natural; The Original Promise … He too bought into this future that was being described and sold, just like everyone else who seemingly thinks that Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash was an instruction …
- What Is It Like To Be A PlayStation? … Bits and pieces I was chatting with Steve McGhee about the whole Disney-as-visiting-infrastructure thing and he reminded me of Snow Crash's burbclaves, those gated …
- Lights … in your living room What's a "living room?" Right, right, I forgot, Snow Crash was a manual and now you live in a storage unit in Los …
- PROMPT-LE … In the department of SNOW CRASH WASN'T A MANUAL, please see the formation of a (the?) Metaverse Standards Forum , which is not the ACM's Global Multimedia …
- A Short Conversation About NATO … It's the Langford Basilisk, the funniest joke in the world, the Crucifix Glitch, Snow Crash from the novel Snow Crash Was Not A Manual, and so on …
- Three and a Half Short Pieces … Snow Crash Was Not A Manual Oh Forget It Two entries in my burgeoning SNOW CRASH WAS NOT AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL folder, the first of which is the …
- IT'S SIGGRAPH TECHNICAL PAPERS PREVIEW TRAILER TIME, BABY! … Snow Crashing, chapter 20 Chapter 20 is mainly concerned with our introduction to Snow-Crash-the-drug's physical form. Remember how in the world of Snow Crash …
- New clouds; Spreadsheets; Half-lives; Snow Crashing chapters 17 and 18 … There are no decentralized ledgers in Snow Crash, which means that we can’t blame “Snow Crash is a business plan” for cryptocurrencies; and There aren’t really …
- Absurdity, net-native journalism, Promising No Solutions, Talking and Snow Crashing, chapter 16 … 2.0 Snow Crashing, chapter 16 Snow Crashing, chapter 16, part 1 Last time in our Snow Crash recap we finished chapter 15: Hiro had met Lagos for …
- Vestigial; Unions; Weird; and Snow Crashing - Chapter 15, part 2 … Monday also means the latest episode of my Snow Crash recap/commentary alongside some things that caught my attention. Let’s go: 1.0 Some things that caught …
- No, But Really, Where Do You Start? … This was another long one! I'll be back on Monday with more Snow Crash commentary, as well as some short things that caught my attention. How are …
- Event Horizon, Cars And Trucks Shall Never Meet; Accountability; Snow Crashing - chapter 15 … If you want one nightmare, it’s not that people are bringing Stephenson’s Snow Crash to life somewhat uncritically, it’s that they’re bringing Snow Crash …
- The Device Becomes The App? … The most recent example is something like the Snow Crashing recaps, where I have the Kindle app open in one side of the screen, and my writing app …
- The Sky Above The Port; Snow Crashing, chapter 14, part 3 … 2.0 Snow Crashing - chapter 14, part 3 Previously on Snow Crashing , we were midway through chapter 14, Hiro was learning about L. Bob Rife’s obsession with …
- The Return of Snow Crash - Snow Crashing: Chapter 14, part 2 … 2.0 Snow Crashing, Chapter 14, part 2 Previously on Snow Crashing , we were partway through chapter 14, with L. Bob Rife finishing up an excerpt from an …
- Aren't we all just so tired … What with the release of the latest trailer of Christopher Nolan's film in Fortnite, I put another checkmark in my "Fortnite is Actually Snow Crash's Metaverse …
- Little things; Snow Crashing Ch 14 part 1 … 1.0 Things that caught my attention A few things that caught my attention in this episode, and then we’ll do a bit more of Snow Crash …
- Cynical, me?; Snow Crashing Ch 13, part 3 … I’ll do a few things first, and then we’ll get on to the next part of Snow Crash. That way anyone who’s just not in …
- Snow Crash Ch13, Part 2; Everything Is Political … 1.1 Snow Crash - Chapter 13, part 2 Previously, on Snow Crashing, in numerical order! Part 1: Chapters 1 and 2 - Episode Forty Four: Snow Crashing; danah boyd …
- Yet another extra bit … I managed to write a whole Snow Crash chapter recap episode with the Kindle app open in one third of the screen, which felt like it worked pretty …
- Snow Crash’s Graveyard Daemons and … 1.1 Snow Crashing - Chapter 13 Last time, in chapter 12, Hiro and Y.T. learned about the Rat Thing at Mr. Lee’s Greater Hong Kong, and …
- Snow Crashing … So, on with the 3,000+ words… 1.1 Snow Crashing - Part 14, Chapter 12 Previously, on Snow Crashing, in numerical order! Part 1: Chapters 1 and 2 …
- No, not a mid-life crisis; Snow Crashing … 1.2 Snow Crashing - Part 13, Chapter 11 Previously, on Snow Crashing, in numerical order! Part 1: Chapters 1 and 2 - Episode Forty Four: Snow Crashing; danah boyd …
- Snow Crashing … I’m in a Holiday Inn right now about to pass out after having finished this week’s Snow Crash recap. Hopefully the President won’t have done …
- Snow Crashing … Snow Crashing; danah boyd; Facebook and Oculus Rift Episode Forty Five - Station Ident; Snow Crashing 2; Computers, AMIRITE?; A Book on your Face Episode Forty Six - Snow Crashing …
- Stop Using Nouns … Oh, and if you’re a longtime subscriber, you might remember that I had started a chapter-by-chapter commentary on Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash. Weeellll I …
- DNS Fan Fiction; 100-watt-hour-Trucks
- Bob Rife Is Real; Digital Secure Confusion … WHAT DOES CHINA KNOW? [0] Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson - Amazon [1] Snow Crash - Wikipedia [2] China is Building an Absolutely Massive Radio Telescope - io9 [3] Yuri Milner - Wikipedia …
- Snow Crashing (10); How The Web Works Now … 1.0 Snow Crashing (10) It's been a while since I've done one of these. (Snow Crashing (9) was in episode 127, back on 23 July …
- Email; Snow Crashing (10); 2014 (4) … The full list of Snow Crash-tagged posts is in my archive[1]. There's a few funny throwaways here: we're reminded that Juanita, Hiro's ex …
- Belong; Snow Crashing (9); Humans As A Service … An Alternative Look at Uber's Potential Market Size 2.0 Snow Crashing (9) We've hit chapter seven in our journey through Neal Stephenson's Snow Crashing …
- A Continued Error; Nadella; Hypermedia … 200 OK. [1] not understanding hypermedia [2] Episode 23: Hyperland [3] Episode 64: Snow Crashing (6) -- OK, more notes please. They're really easy to write. And they …
- Taking Stock; And The New … Snow Crashing; danah boyd; Facebook and Oculus Rift Episode Forty Five – Station Ident; Snow Crashing 2; Computers, AMIRITE?; A Book on your Face Episode Forty Six – Snow Crashing …
- Continued Disruption; Snow Crashing (7); Edge of Tomorrow … The last one was back in episode 64[1], where we covered the hypercard stack given to Hiro by the Snow Crash pusher outside the Black Sun. Now …
- This Is My Next; And How It Felt
- Cities; Disruptive; Still Brittle … In fact, now my head's spinning a bit and if you'll forgive me I kind of want to pursue this tangent. (If I had a Snow …
- Computer Says No, Snow Crashing … Unfortunately, time hasn't been kind to Snow Crash: we're not really using CRTs anymore, and even in Hiro's world, he's not using CRT's …
- Yet More VR; TV is still fucked; Vox.com; Ugh … And the easiest job is going to be converting the ten million or so virtual reality adherents who're just waiting for Snow Crash to come about. But …
- Disintermediation & Externalisation; Housing; Odds … Also, the nagging suspicion (along with Kim Pallister) as to whether anyone has a more-developed business model than "Snow Crash". I hope I never, ever have to …
- Cities; Snow Crashing 5; More Television … fiber.google.com/en/us/about/files/googlefibercitychecklist2-24-14.pdf 2.0 Snow Crashing 5 So, we've now got a bit about hacking, the production of …
- Living In An Immaterial World; Snow Crashing 4; Odds … Just setting up the cost of existing in the world a la Gregarious Simulation Systems does in OASIS and the ACM's Global Multimedia Protocol Group in Snow …
- Not Yet A Phyle; Ready Player One; Fantasy Acquisitions … It's clear that OASIS occupies a different place in our shared consciousness if only because of time and the fact that Snow Crash's Metaverse and the …
- Snow Crashing 3; Video is a Content-Type; Blame Your Tools … 1.0 Snow Crashing 3 I remember thinking that millimeter radar sounded so cool when I first read about it in Snow Crash. And then it started turning …
- Station Ident; Snow Crashing 2; Computers, AMIRITE?; A Book on your Face … 1.0 Snow Crashing 2 Okay, so the last installment of Snow Crashing turned out to be pretty fun to write, so here's some more. The Street …
- Snow Crashing; danah boyd; Facebook and Oculus Rift 1.0 Snow Crashing If you were going to read Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash again, which you should, because seminal science fiction and all that, never mind …
- The Difficulty … It can also, Librarian-from-Snow Crash-style, take conversation forks and handle interruptions and then return seamlessly. It's interesting that one of the hallmarks of the …
- Some Thoughts On The Illustrated Primer, Fax Your GP … There's something crackly about early Stephenson work like those two books (Diamond Age and Snow Crash) which just isn't in his later work, and I wish …
- Rate All The Things … It may well sound facetious, but the idea that Google's business plan came from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash doesn't feel quite so far off, and …