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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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