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"His fundamental insight was to see merit in deliberately abusing keys, thereby attempting to destroy every vestige of structure"
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum • Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination (The MIT Press)
The daily glitter of high-tech novelty rides upon slow currents.
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
Like any place in Reality, the Street is subject to development. Developers can build their own small streets feeding off of the main one. They can build buildings, parks, signs, as well as things that do not exist in Reality, such as vast hovering overhead light shows, special neighborhoods where the rules of three-dimensional spacetime are ignore
... See moreNeal Stephenson • Snow Crash: A Novel
“It’s like, if you—people of a certain age—would make some effort to just stay in touch with sort of basic, modern-day events, then your kids wouldn’t have to take these drastic measures.”
Neal Stephenson • Snow Crash: A Novel
the days when dangerousness was a function of mass and bulk.
Neal Stephenson • The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)
We’re cashing in a billion years of planetary savings bonds and blowing it on assorted bling.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Stewart Brand
Ringo,