Stephenson, Neal
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- Kill Your Gods … the Torment Nexus [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 …
- What Are We Doing Here, Exactly?; LLMs Are Playful, Actually … This entire thing is also part of the (humanist?) premise of Neal Stephenson’s Lesser-Cited Manual For The Future, The Diamond Age, in which Stephenson pits an …
- What does it take to trust?; The Young Lady’s Illustrated Tour Guide … Often the nearest example from science fiction for this type of agent is The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, from Neal Stephenson’s Diamond Age [7] . Every so …
- 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?
- New clouds; Spreadsheets; Half-lives; Snow Crashing chapters 17 and 18
- Absurdity, net-native journalism, Promising No Solutions, Talking and Snow Crashing, chapter 16
- Vestigial; Unions; Weird; and Snow Crashing - Chapter 15, part 2
- Event Horizon, Cars And Trucks Shall Never Meet; Accountability; Snow Crashing - chapter 15
- The Sky Above The Port; Snow Crashing, chapter 14, part 3
- The Return of Snow Crash - Snow Crashing: Chapter 14, part 2
- An Institution at the Intersection of Technology and Society … Cyd Harrell @cydharrell @hondanhon @KristyT tech millionaire venmoing taskrabbits to repackage ersatz international medical goods, & getting caught from the venmo feed, may be the most Neal Stephenson thing …
- Flint and Kindling … I take back everything I’ve ever said about Neal Stephenson. 1.1 Flint and Kindling This one is a bit more personal, so if you’re a …
- Cynical, me?; Snow Crashing Ch 13, part 3
- Snow Crash Ch13, Part 2; Everything Is Political
- Snow Crash’s Graveyard Daemons and
- Snow Crashing
- No, not a mid-life crisis; Snow Crashing
- Snow Crashing … closer, again, to that book and, UGH I am sorry about all the Neal Stephenson these days. Here is a game jam about correspondence / epistolary games that I …
- Snow Crashing … to be friends, I had started writing a chapter-by-chapter commentary about Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crashing. Here are the parts, in order: Episode Forty Four: Snow …
- 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 …
- Things That Have Caught My Attention … governess/tutor from Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age. (Relatedly, I see that in the tech industry's process of Implement Everything That Neal Stephenson Wrote About, we've …
- Welcome to the Churn … I used to get excited about the Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer from Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age as a sort of perfect interactive textbook combined with …
- Things That Have Caught My Attention … This pattern matches in my head against The Event, the opening sentence of Neal Stephenson's Seveneves, which has the moon exploding and people figuring out that the …
- 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 …
- The System Of The World; Hard Takeoff … This is not a bit about the Neal Stephenson book that I never started, never mind got through: whilst I enjoyed Cryptonomicon, I never could get into the …
- Internet of Capitalism; Internet of Things Winter; Transmogrify
- Snow Crashing (10); How The Web Works Now … We're at chapter eight of our trip through Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash - we've just had infodump on Juanita, and now things are about to kick …
- Not Doing A Nick Bilton; Counterexamples; echofuckingpraxia
- Better Days … Stories and Visions for a Better Future , edited by this guy you might have heard of, Neal Stephenson, designed to answer the call for an *optimistic* as opposed …
- Email; Snow Crashing (10); 2014 (4) … Crash, and this is the tenth in my series of notes going through Neal Stephenson's 1992 novel to see how it's held up over the years …
- 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 … The preoccupation with hypermedia (and in the same way, we see it with Neal Stephenson's hypercard stack) precluded interlinked-links, instead thinking of media objects as some …
- Taking Stock; And The New … I have an on-going project where I'm re-reading Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash and taking it apart. You can get all of those at: Episode …
- Continued Disruption; Snow Crashing (7); Edge of Tomorrow
- Computer Says No, Snow Crashing
- Cities; Snow Crashing 5; More Television
- Living In An Immaterial World; Snow Crashing 4; Odds … In Chapter 5, we're back on the Street, and Neal Stephenson has just introduced people to the concept of avatars for the first time, for which: look …
- Snow Crashing 3; Video is a Content-Type; Blame Your Tools
- Station Ident; Snow Crashing 2; Computers, AMIRITE?; A Book on your Face
- 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 …
- IP and the Federation; A Thousand Digital Hubs In Your Pocket; Your Server Recommends … it the replicator? You have a similar situation in the toy universe of Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age where Nell's brother teachers her how to use their …
- An Alternative; Washing; Users
- Some Thoughts On The Illustrated Primer, Fax Your GP … I don't necessarily mean the infodump Tom Clancy (or, let's be honest, Neal Stephenson) type of writer, but there have always been some turns of phrase …
- 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 …