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"Crazytown was repelled by facts and knowledge, as oil fled from water, but was fascinated by the absence of hard facts, since it provided vacant space in which to construct elaborate edifices of speculation. Toward power it felt some combination of fear and admiration, and Corvallis was powerful. Toward vulnerability it was drawn, in the same way that predators would converge on the isolated and straggling."
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📚 Immer wieder falle ich darauf rein, Bücher zu lesen, die angeblich am Anfang eines kulturellen Phänomens gestanden sind. Trotz geringer Erwartungen war schon #JohnNormans "Tarnsmen of Gor" (1966) ziemliche Zeitverschwendung.
Nun kommt "Snow Crash" von #NeilStephenson (1992) um die Ecke gebogen, angeblich Ankerliteratur für den Begriff des #Metaverse. Will ich, soll ich mir das tatsächlich antun?
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An old interview with Neal Stephenson, when he'd finished his Baroque Cycle:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2004/nov/04/onlinesupplement