Re:Don't make fun of renowned author Dan Brown (2013)
by arcwhite on Sunday February 02, 2025 @10:15PM
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YT's skateboard introduces the telescopic contact smartwheels pretty early on as a Courier essential.
I don't recall Hiro's motorcycle being much a part of the story, it might also have had the smartwheels but isn't discussed until later...
Re:Don't make fun of renowned author Dan Brown (2013)
by calmbonsai on Sunday February 02, 2025 @11:23PM
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Yep. His motorcycle is introduced in great detail and then afterwards Stephenson deliberately trolls us with "...after that, it's just a chase scene" and it's never mentioned again. ;)
Re:Don't make fun of renowned author Dan Brown (2013)
by architango on Sunday February 02, 2025 @10:36PM
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And then YT makes a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo in Stephenson's follow-up book, "The Diamond Age."
Re:Don't make fun of renowned author Dan Brown (2013)
by calmbonsai on Sunday February 02, 2025 @11:24PM
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Woah! I'll have to re-read that.
Hiro doesn't use a skateboard you're thinking of "YT" the courier.
Hiro uses a high-performance pizza-delivery-specific car early on and then later a motorcycle that has wheels that aren't even continuous discs, but made up of many individually coordinated linear actuators with grip-pads on the end.