We are all nerds: The literary works of Neal Stephenson

Re:We are all nerds: The literary works of Neal Stephenson by lb1lf on Sunday August 28, 2022 @02:08PM (#32630529)

I think they are becoming more mainstream friendly as, well, the world has caught up with him, more or less - I find he's a master at grasping what technologies will explode into the mainstream a few years early, then spin a wonderful yarn around that.

Cryptonomicon, REAMDE (to some extent) and The Diamond Age seemed really future-y when released - but now, their basic concepts are all over the media and on people's minds.

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Re:We are all nerds: The literary works of Neal Stephenson by nibbleshifter on Sunday August 28, 2022 @03:10PM (#32631103)

REAMDE came out a very short time before awareness of ransomware went from "a handful of people in the hacker world" to "infosec industry starts becoming aware of it".

To more than a few people, it seemed very prescient.

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