We are all nerds: The literary works of Neal Stephenson

Re:We are all nerds: The literary works of Neal Stephenson by JZL003 on Sunday August 28, 2022 @01:58PM (#32630429)

Also for anyone who likes weird scifi, read Cory Doctorow's Rapture of the nerds, it has an amazing audiobook and is just fun and clever

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Re:We are all nerds: The literary works of Neal Stephenson by cl42 on Sunday August 28, 2022 @02:24PM (#32630664)

Spoiler Alert

The idea that rich people have access to more compute power in the cloud, and can experience more compute cycles per minute (and thus have more experiences in a metaverse!), is exactly how I see a dystopian universe based on cloud computing developing. When I read that part in the book, it blew my mind.

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Re:We are all nerds: The literary works of Neal Stephenson by uptime on Sunday August 28, 2022 @07:00PM (#32632957)

You might like Greg Egan’s Permutation City too.

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Re:We are all nerds: The literary works of Neal Stephenson by cl42 on Sunday August 28, 2022 @08:45PM (#32633690)

This looks so good! Will definitely read it. Thank you!

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