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Neal Stephenson Explains What's Wrong with Mobile Phones [Technocritique]
io9.com - 9/7/2008
Neal Stephenson Explains What's Wrong with Mobile Phones [Technocritique]
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Neal Stephenson, author of Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon , is one of the most techno-savvy scifi authors of his generation, and yet his new novel Anathem is strongly critical of mobile phones. Anathem , which hits bookstores Tuesday, is set on an alien world that's very much like Earth — ...
Neal Stephenson Talks to io9 About Religion, Aliens, and Spoilers
io9.com - 9/10/2008
Neal Stephenson Talks to io9 About Religion, Aliens, and Spoilers
— io9.com — Today Neal Stephenson's long-awaited new novel Anathem hits the bookstores. We've already told you that this tale... of science monks on another planet is cool, action-packed, and thought-provoking -- probably one of the best novels of Stephenson's ... (more) Neal Stephenson Talks to io9 About Religion, Aliens, and ...

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sfsite.com - 9/2/2008
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
— sfsite.com — Few modern novels divide opinion among science fiction fans with quite the sharpness of Neal Stephenson's Snow... Crash, the book that blasted him to geek-hero status after its original publication in 1992. Subterranean Press's handsome limited edition ... (more) Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

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Posthuman Blues — Neal Stephenson Explains What's Wrong with Mobile Phones What's intriguing is that Stephenson is saying mobiles suck not just because of their interfaces, but because of how people act when they use mobiles. Of course, how people act with cell phones has everything to do with the interface. You have to stick them against your face, or put some weirdass Cyberman-looking thing in your ear. So your body language, when you're on a mobile, makes you immediately seem rude to anyone around you. Plus, most people still use ...

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