Comment Gibson and Stephenson (Score 1) 188
While Gibson provides a look at a society almost entirely shaped by information (even the extremely short "Burning Chrome" was pretty much the same stuff), Gibson understands how the internet will probably work in the far future (except who writes code for all those fruit looped coloured hacker toys?)...
Stephenson is a watered down Gibson (Gibson for Dummies). He still get the info flow though, and has a rather far fetched view of technology playing with people. Snowcrash was plausible, kind of a humanitarian evolution of technology, and The Diamond Age furthers the same ideas. (I haven't gotten Zodiac or found a cheap Cryptomicron, I am not paying $20.00 for a book!).
So anyway, grab a boxed set from these guys (or make it yourself, dammit! ) and strap them into that time capsule Slashdot is putting together (or are they playing with our minds, yet again!?).
;)
--Josh
Stephenson is a watered down Gibson (Gibson for Dummies). He still get the info flow though, and has a rather far fetched view of technology playing with people. Snowcrash was plausible, kind of a humanitarian evolution of technology, and The Diamond Age furthers the same ideas. (I haven't gotten Zodiac or found a cheap Cryptomicron, I am not paying $20.00 for a book!).
So anyway, grab a boxed set from these guys (or make it yourself, dammit! ) and strap them into that time capsule Slashdot is putting together (or are they playing with our minds, yet again!?).
;)
--Josh
