Stephenson, Neal
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- Neal Stephenson is leaking again; When computer isn’t computer … 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention 1.1 Neal Stephenson is leaking again Two things that caught my attention. First, this headline from Progressive Grocer dot …
- 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? … s burbclaves, those gated, opinionated communities, or maybe even the franchulates (which presumably Stephenson extrapolated from or was inspired by Disney), but what I didn't get a …
- New clouds; Spreadsheets; Half-lives; Snow Crashing chapters 17 and 18 … the drive to Compton is an opportunity for Stephenson to inject quite a bit of social, racial commentary. One mention of technology we have is that Narcolombia, a …
- Absurdity, net-native journalism, Promising No Solutions, Talking and Snow Crashing, chapter 16 … programmers on his imageering team” — which I don’t think is a typo? Stephenson would know about imagineering , so perhaps this is intentional and more about metaverse-only …
- Vestigial; Unions; Weird; and Snow Crashing - Chapter 15, part 2 … So Lagos gives us a classic Stephenson infodump, and in just a short conversation we learn: hackers have deep structures - neurolinguistic pathways in your brain, the idea that …
- Event Horizon, Cars And Trucks Shall Never Meet; Accountability; Snow Crashing - chapter 15 … Hiro makes money by uploading this to the CIC database (“formerly the Library of Congress”), and Stephenson’s point about merging the Central Intelligence Agency with the Library …
- The Sky Above The Port; Snow Crashing, chapter 14, part 3 … Then we’re into one of Stephenson’s neologisms (at least, I think it’s one), speaking through a character. The journalist interviewing Rife, “desperately trying to follow …
- The Return of Snow Crash - Snow Crashing: Chapter 14, part 2 … a very, very short things that caught my attention, and then I’m continuing my commentary on Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, a series I started in checks …
- 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 … We should remember though that these are information sources in The Library, an evolution of the library of congress, so maybe we should cut Stephenson some slack here …
- Snow Crash Ch13, Part 2; Everything Is Political … This is borne out by Stephenson’s commentary: Hiro has been thinking that in a few years, if he does really well in the intel biz, maybe he …
- Snow Crash’s Graveyard Daemons and … The concept of programming is central to the plot and the concepts Stephenson explores, so even if Snow Crash were written now, I don’t think it’d …
- Snow Crashing … the hot salty blood pumping through their arteries” and really what I think Stephenson is trying to get across here is that intelligence and consciousness are much better …
- No, not a mid-life crisis; Snow Crashing … First, I do not think I am going to recap Fall; mainly because it is absurdly long even for Stephenson standards, and second because it was the Stephenson …
- 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 … Where are the futures where some things really are free? Stephenson's Diamond Age had a sort-of basic income implemented through compilers/3D printers: each individual had …
- 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 … it's not like one of Hannu Rajaniemi's Quantum Thief series or Stephenson's Anathem where there's a bunch of new language you need to figure …
- 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 … In Stephenson's vision of corporatised America, everything that can be done by a corporation instead of government is done by a corporation. It's obvious that he …
- Computer Says No, Snow Crashing … For starters, Stephenson asserts that "Street protocol states that your avatar can't be any taller than you are," which strikes me as a) completely missing the point …
- Cities; Snow Crashing 5; More Television … I don't think Stephenson meant that Hiro was coding an OpenGL implementation on his own, for example. These days, says Stephenson, "software comes out of factories, and …
- 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 … This is another opportunity to remind ourselves about the other big thing that Stephenson - and a lot of other people - missed. Ubiquitous wireless data, or even the concept …
- Station Ident; Snow Crashing 2; Computers, AMIRITE?; A Book on your Face … EVEN if those 16 million are, as Stephenson exposits, the 1%. I don't know about you, but something tells me that the economics in Stephenson's toy …
- 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 … I'm reminded of Stephenson's clades from The Diamond Age - in that particular case, he was making the point of cultural affiliation being stronger than national - and …
- 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 …