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“Rife’s key realization was that there’s no difference between modern culture and Sumerian. We have a huge workforce that is illiterate or alliterate and relies on TV—which is sort of an oral tradition. And we have a small, extremely literate power elite—the people who go into the Metaverse, basically—who understand that information is power, and w
... See moreNeal Stephenson • Snow Crash: A Novel

So it’s fitting that exactly a decade later, we’ve come to another watershed moment. Software has eaten the world, and now it’s a commodity. It’s not about the technology anymore. The era of the engineer has ended; the era of the curator has begun.
Gaby Goldberg • Curators All the Way Down
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Neal Stephenson • Reamde: A Novel
I find the world is full of people who think that their dependence on others is decreasing, or that they would be better off if they were more self-sufficient, or that technological progress has brought no improvement in the standard of living, or that the world is steadily deteriorating, or that the exchange of things and ideas is a superfluous ir... See more
Matt Ridley • The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.)
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)
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I have come to believe that food is history of the deepest kind. Everything we eat tells a tale of ingenuity and creation, domination and injustice—and does so more vividly than any other artifact, any other medium.
Robin Sloan • Sourdough: A Novel
THE SCI-FI GURU WHO PREDICTED GOOGLE EARTH EXPLAINS SILICON VALLEY’S LATEST OBSESSION
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