In May of 1999, shortly after the release of his seminal work Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson gave an interview to Salon.com in which he made the (at first blush) rather cryptic claim that “Ever since the Mac came out our operating systems have been based on metaphors.” The interviewer goes on to explain for our benefit [...]
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Fellow office dork Grant recently forwarded to me a snippet from an interview Neal Stephenson gave to Slashdot. Presumably, office dork Grant did this because he knows I have a serious case of man wood for Neal Stephenson (despite the fact that I’ve bogged down 2/3 of the way through The Confusion and just can’t [...]
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<– Chapter 10 / Chapter 11 –> If he would bother to take the main lift up to the obs platform on a daily basis, Ray could see the shimmering orb that was New Holyoke expanding like an explosion of blue at which Paraclete aimed as though it was a gnarled and criminally un-aerodynamic spear. [...]
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