![]() ![]() ![]() while hardware might be getting faster all the time, software is shit. The key thing they have in common is the idea of a rapture, in which some chosen humans will be taken up and made one with the infinite while others will be left behind. I can never get past the structural similarities between the Singularity prediction and the apocalypse of St.Neal Stephenson coins the term "text literacy" during interview for the article "Pushing the Edge With 'Diamond Age' Nano-Machines," Associated Press, May 10, 1995.I think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and mathematical literacy are much more powerful and flexible ways to organize your mind.You may not realize its advantages until you're trying to breathe liquid methane. For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter's is much prettier.The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future it's an awareness that this is different.Quotes So I’m well aware that there are certain people frustrated with the endings of my books. 2.2 Short fiction by Neal Stephenson, published online.2.1 Nonfiction articles by Neal Stephenson, published online.1.3 "Mother Earth Mother Board," cover story in Wired, 4.12 (1996). ![]()
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