Haven’t re-read it in at about 5 years… forgot what an excellent book #NealStephenson’s #TheDiamondAge is.

(Even more interesting with the existence of things like LLMs and other machine learning bits… 🤔)

These clowns are trying to manifest #NealStephenson’s #TerminationShock…

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/24/1066041/a-startup-says-its-begun-releasing-particles-into-the-atmosphere-in-an-effort-to-tweak-the-climate/

How many more of Stephenson’s dystopias are there left for idiot tech bros to implement? One: #TheDiamondAge.

We’re 80% there with: #Oligarchies, #wealthcliques #SurveillanceStates, #mediaglyphs/emoji, permanent #underclasses, etc. TBD: #MatterCompilers.

Just, finally, finished reading #TheDiamondAge by #NealStephenson

An interesting read that reminds me a little of #StandOnZanzibar by #JohnBrunner though I've only just thought that as I was typing this post.

Onwards to #FallOrDodgeInHell

#AmReading #eBooks

Was digging through an old hard-drive, and found an article that @KevinCarson1 wrote for the The #Bitcoin Sun in 2011. How he starts off:

"#NealStephenson's "#TheDiamondAge" was set some years after encrypted currencies and e-commerce removed most economic transactions into #darknets beyond the government's capability of monitoring and regulating, and thus caused tax bases around the world to implode. This was followed, in short order, by the collapse of most nation-states."