Jack William Bell's Journal: Stephenson Interview

Glenn Reynolds has an interview with writer Neal Stephenson.

I liked the bit about fame. Reynolds asked about Stephenson's claim that his fame is like being the Mayor of Des Moines -- quite famous within a group of a few hundred thousand people, but largely unknown to everyone else. Stephenson replies: "That's interesting. This is a kind of inversion of Warhol's idea, that everyone would be famous -- to everyone else -- for fifteen minutes. In the future, maybe everyone will be famous for a long time, but to a limited group."