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Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction. His novels have been categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, and baroque.
Stephenson’s work explores mathematics, cryptography, linguistics, philosophy, currency, and the history of science. He also writes nonfiction articles about technology in publications such as Wired. He has written novels with his uncle, George Jewsbury (“J. Frederick George”), under the collective pseudonym Stephen Bury.
Stephenson has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company (founded by Jeff Bezos) developing a spacecraft and a space launch system,[1] and also co-founded the Subutai Corporation, whose first offering is the interactive fiction project The Mongoliad. He was Magic Leap’s Chief Futurist from 2014 to 2020.[2]
also in “you can’t make this stuff up” news, the guy who wrote snow crash (AND coined the word “metaverse”) is surprised when exploitative data-stealing mega corp tech ai products are stupid and broken
TBF, most dystopian megacorp fiction paint the megacorps as being evil AND reasonably competent.
I was gonna say, “You wrote the book on this. Literally.” 🤦🏽♀️
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Who?
He’s an author. He’s one half of the two Neals, the less appreciated but non-rapey alternative to Neil Gaiman. (they both write a wide range of mostly science fiction/philosophy that has been highly influential among a certain demographic of internet early-adopters and digital pioneers). His most popular books are probably Snow Crash and Anathem, which rank among my top ten favourite books of all time.
Edit: I just realized you probably were sarcastically asking who they thought he was impersonating lol my bad. I’ll leave this here because I think it’s good context for other readers to have.
Totally agreed on Anathem. It’s so underappreciated, even by his fans.
Of course, it was much more pioneering for its time than it would be seen as now, but still a fantastic novel.
Huh you said niel and in thought degras Tyson
I appreciate the context :)
You can take it as “Who is Neal Stephenson?” or “Who is Neal Stephenson trying to impersonate?”
“Whom” in the latter case, I suppose.
A very famous and influential sci-fi author. He coined the term “metaverse”. I actually thought there was going to be a legal battle about it back when Facebook decided to use his word.
Shoulda paid for a blue check mark, then…shouldn’t ya?
