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Request for comments on #NealStephenson 's #DiamondAge. I'm 50 pages into it and I'm not sure where it's going. Thouhts?
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Request for comments on #NealStephenson 's #DiamondAge. I'm 50 pages into it and I'm not sure where it's going. Thouhts?
Diamond Age-Inspired Pocket Watch Has ESP32 Inside
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/18/diamond-age-inspired-pocket-watch-has-esp32-inside/
@fluidlogic Forgot to add: People often go on about Neal Stephenson's Snowcrash as metaphor for our times, but I actually think his Diamond Age was in many ways far more prescient of some of the developments we're seeing now:
- the rise of a global corporate oligarchy (Neo-Victorians in the novel) which centrally controls The Source (aka The Cloud in our world) and The Feed, aka a mixed stream of energy, media and basic molecules, which can be used to assemble goods by matter compilers
- the breakdown/diminishing roles of nation states and emergence of sovereign oligarchy-controlled cities/jurisdictions (aka Free economic zones)
- social reorganization into phyles/tribes, either based on economic standing and/or skills/culture/religion or "Thetes" (aka outcasts & stateless people)
- the creation of Seed technology as distributed inversion principle of The Source, fully distributed creation/organization (aka open source culture)
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»65 urodziny Neala Stephensona«
Amerykański pisarz science fiction Neal Stephenson przyszedł na świat 31 października 1959 roku w Fort Meade.
https://www.fahrenheit.net.pl/aktualnosci/65-urodziny-neala-stephensona/
#Fahrenheit_zin #NealStephenson #Zamieć #SnowCrash #Diamentowywiek #DiamondAge
"I Think My Whole Field Is Haunted By The Primer"
Thoughts about The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer from Neal Stephenson's "Diamond Age," nearly 30 years on ... gwint posted "Exorcising us of the Primer" by researcher and software engineer/designer Andy Matuschak
https://www.metafilter.com/204515/Kids-need-to-get-answers-from-humans-who-love-them
#AI #DiamondAge #learning #NealStephenson #pedagogy #primer #SciFi #YoungLadysIllustratedPrimer
Höre #DiamondAge - #DieGrenzwelt von #NealStephenson.
Und zum zweistelligen male bin ich wieder hin und weg.
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