#neal-stephenson — Public Fediverse posts

Liebes Fediverse:
Durch das Hören der @browserhistory zum Metaverse suche ich das folgende Hörbuch:
Snow Crash von Neal Stephenson (auf Deutsch)
Laut https://www.buecher-magazin.de/rezensionen/hoerbuecher/thriller-und-krimis/snow-crash müsste es von Detlev Bierstedt gelesen worden sein.

#FediHelp #Hoerbuch #Audiobook #NealStephenson #SnowCrash

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116381527689674082

Possibly time for the satellites to be doing some sort of flocking work themselves.

But who would trust other satellites?

#NealStephenson the #SciFi writer introduyced a program. #perambulator for that, in this entertaining novel #SevenEves

@dgar #SciFi the author #NealStephenson introduces someone's #steelyard test for the same purpose. In another of the hypothetical #ManyWorlds

#Anathem

Neal Stephenson's handwritten manuscript for his Baroque Cycle. On display at Seattle's MOPOP (then EMP) Science Fiction Museum.

📷 Nikon D70s / Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 / December 2010

On Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/djwudi/5278444553/

#photography #nikon #d70s #nikkor #24mmf28 #NealStephenson

#Meta’s recent decision to shut down its Metaverse project, despite a significant investment, has reignited discussions about the viability of the concept. #NealStephenson offers insights into the #challenges for immersive #virtualworlds. He highlights the impracticality of #headmounteddisplays, the limited #developermarket, and the importance of a compelling #narrative in driving user #engagement. https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/my-prodigal-brainchild?Metaver.se #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #XR #VR #MR #AR #BeyondPictures

Science fiction author Neal Stephenson coined the term "metaverse." Here, he writes about Meta's decision to close its $80 billion Metaverse project. "People don’t like wearing things on their faces and don’t trust those who do."

https://flip.it/ldoEYT

#Technology #Metaverse #SciFi #NealStephenson

Head-mounted #VR hardware will never happen, says #NealStephenson - who coined the term ‘metaverse’
#ScienceFiction author Neal Stephenson, who coined the term “#metaverse” in his 1992 novel #SnowCrash, has argued he and others who believed immersive environments would require head-mounted hardware got it wrong.
‘People don’t like wearing things on their faces and don’t trust those who do’
20 years into the future, devices like #smartphones will still dominate.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/24/neal_stephenson_death_of_metaverse/

@blabberlicious #Snowcrash is #SciFi and more of a warning than a #blueprint #NealStephenson #Metaverse

I'm tyding my stuff and questions arise e.g.
Why do I have two copies of "Snow Crash"
Why are they next to each other on the shelf? I think I would have noticed when I put them there. It doesn't fit my normal chaotic ways.
I'm definitely getting old.
Anyway the local library or one of the many charity shops nearby will have a copy of "Snow Crash" soon.
#tidying #books #NealStephenson #SnowCrash #cyberpunk #ScienceFiction

Now I want to read a sci-fi novel set in the near future about two programmers who need to learn non-vibe-coding to write something under the radar of the AIs (plural!) watching their every move online.

To save the world.
In rust.

And they're fighting over vi vs emacs.

And it will have to be on an OpenBSD machine, since every performance setting is disabled because of rowhammer et alter.

Something like the Morse stuff in Cryptonomicon?

#AI #nealstephenson #cryptonomicon #vibecoding #vi #openbsd #bsd
#writingprompt #rust #rustlang

William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, or Charles (Charlie) Stross never predicted this!

#PizzaSignal #SciFiPizza #PizzaPunk
#Neuromancer #SnowCrash #HaltingState #Rule34
#WilliamGibson #Gibson #NealStephenson #CharlesStross
#SciFi #Distopia #Distopian #Cyberpunk

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5750716-pentagon-pizza-report-hegseth/

@cathill one of our local stars tends to use a wide angle.
A larger #sensor will show less #noise on long exposures.
In #SciFi a fisheye telescope sits atop the math in #Anathem by #NealStephenson recording 180° of the sky all round. #Clepsythra's Eye.

#NealStephenson drops the date of his upcoming novel D (October 2026):

https://open.substack.com/pub/nealstephenson/p/stephenson-impersonator-minor-update

@Kerplunk @dw_innovation
#Cryptonomicon is a book worth reading, for several reasons including amusement, and has an interesting appendix on a card game.

Try not to mention the #Crocodile

#SciFi #NealStephenson #Encryption

@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)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age

#NealStephenson #DiamondAge

#nealstephenson has a new blog post:

"KdK part 2: a medical mystery from postwar Germany"

https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/kdk-part-2-a-medical-mystery-from

@futzle I feel like generative protein design folks should be challenged to make an enzyme that can manufacture sheets of diamond at room temperature so we can get closer to #diamondage #nealstephenson

#FridayReads #bookstodon

#NealStephenson's #Polostan

@AkaSci
#NealStephenson the #SciFi author makes some use of them in his large interesting novel #Anathem

Which also has some echoes of what, perhaps, scientists might consider around this period of Administration of the USA.

#Analemma #Solstice

@Ruth_Mottram
#SciFi #NealStephenson introduced the idea of a program run on many distributed nodes to optimise orbits and the manoeuvres to avoid collisions, called it Perambulator and for plot purposes gave it a very long span of use.
#Seveneves
An entertaining book.

Neal Stephenson spins a yarn about the mystical, near-fantasy world of command lines, where Apple and Microsoft are portrayed as tech sorcerers. 🧙‍♂️✨ Who knew selling invisible software could be more magical than selling blinking boxes? 💾🔮
https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txt #NealStephenson #CommandLines #TechSorcerers #FantasySoftware #MagicInTech #InvisibleSoftware #HackerNews #ngated

Neal Stephenson's "Termination Shock" started out really good but it's really bogging down. If it doesn't pick up soon this may be a did-not-finish.

I'm listening to it on audiobook.

#nealStephenson #books #amReading #audiobooks #terminationShock #nearFuture #climateFiction #climateCrisis #climate

And also cheap #HumbleBundles to get the novels basically starting with #HorusRising. There is a good #HumbleBundle right now: www.humblebundle.com/books/modern... #ScifiClassics #CharlesSoule #JosephFink #HughHowey #NealStephenson #harpercollins

Humble Book Bundle: Modern Sci...

How Neal Stephenson’s Lamina1 and Weta Workshop Are Using ‘Artefact’ Web Game to Launch ‘Truly New Original IP’: ‘Almost a Post-AI Mythos’
#Variety #News #Artefact #Lamina1 #NealStephenson

https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/artefact-game-neal-stephenson-lamina1-weta-workshop-1236572453/

"When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins." 10 Neal Stephenson Quotes:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2025/10/31-october-neal-stephenson-quotes.html

#Quotes #BirthAnniversay #NealStephenson

Lamina1 and Linea Bring Creator-Controlled Digital Media to Ethereum - TLDR

Lamina1 partners with Linea to bring creator-controlled media to Ethereum.
Artefact... - https://blockonomi.com/lamina1-and-linea-bring-creator-controlled-digital-media-to-ethereum/ #nealstephenson #technology #consensys #lamina1 #linea #zkevm #news