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Neal Stephenson, visionary speculative fiction author and long-time friend of Long Now, joined us for a conversation with journalist Charles C. Mann on the research behind his new novel Polostan, the dawn of the Atomic Age, and the craft of historical storytelling. Polostan is the first installment in a monumental new series called Bomb Light - an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age. Set against the turbulent decades of the early twentieth century, Polostan is an inventive, richly detailed, and deeply entertaining historical epic from Stephenson, whose prior books include Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle

Neal Stephenson is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of novels including Termination Shock, Seveneves, Cryptonomicon, and Snow Crash. His works blend science fiction, historical fiction, and cyberpunk, exploring mathematics, cryptography, philosophy, and scientific history. Born in Fort Meade to a family of scientists, he holds a degree in geography and physics from Boston University. As noted by The Atlantic, his prescient works anticipated the metaverse, cryptocurrency, and AI revolution. His latest novel is Polostan, the first installment in his Bomb Light cycle. Shermer and Stephenson discuss: professional and speculative fiction writing, the interplay of genetics and fate, historical contingency (particularly regarding Hitler and nuclear weapons), atomic bomb development and ethics, game theory in nuclear deterrence, cryptocurrency, AI advancement and mind uploading, human evolution, Mars colonization politics, and philosophical concepts like Peirce's Fallibilism and Platonic realism.

In this episode, Steve and Paromita sits down with author Benjamin Liar to discuss his latest book, The Failures, an epic blend of science fiction and fantasy. They dive deep into the inspiration behind the story, which Benjamin has been developing for over 30 years, exploring its intricate structure, interlocking puzzles, and multi-dimensional characters. The conversation covers themes of nature, the loss of connection to the natural world, and the beauty of simplicity.They also discuss their favorite books and authors, including China Miéville, Jeff VanderMeer, Neil Stephenson, and Ursula K. Le Guin. The guest reveals how Le Guin influenced his pseudonym and shares his thoughts on the blending of science fiction and fantasy genres. In the final part of the episode, Benjamin talks about his journey to publication, the collaborative process behind the book cover design, and his openness to future writing collaborations.Tune in for an engaging conversation filled with insights into the creative process, worldbuilding, and the complexities of The Failures.Find Benjamin here: https://www.benjaminliar.com/Send us a textSupport the showPageChewing.comPAGECHEWING: Comics & Manga PodcastFilm Chewing PodcastSpeculative Speculations PodcastBuy me a coffeeLinktreeJoin Riverside.fm

More podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB's Patreon!Credits:Host: Jake Casella BrookinsGuest: Dan HartlandTitle: The Passion by Jeanette WintersonMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughReferences:This blog has a round-up of articles and commentary on the Gaiman allegations.Dan's Snap! Criticism series at AncillaryHandheld PressVonda McInty're The Exile Waiting & DreamsnakeThe 2024 Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and FantasyAnnie Luong on Margaret Atwood's The Heart Goes LastNeal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon and the Baroque CycleLaura van den Berg's State of Paradise & Casella's reviewDon DeLillo's White NoiseWinterson's Written on the Body, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal, and FrankissteinBernard Cornwell's Sharpe novelsWilliam Shakespeare's As You Like It and The Winter's TaleChina Miéville's The City & The City (though I don't think we actually name it)Salman Rushdie, Martin AmisJulian Barnes' A History of the World in 10½ ChaptersThe 1980s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction edited by Emily Horton, Philip Tew, and Leigh WilsonNeil Gaiman, Jeff Noon, Steph Swainston“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. EliotFrank Herbert's DuneMary Shelley's FrankensteinWendy Roy on Cherie DimalineWilliam Gibson's Pattern Recognition and othersDan's piece in LARB on Christopher Priest and his last novel, Airside

Kayvon Beykpour was the longest-serving head of product at Twitter and was GM of Twitter's consumer division until the platform was acquired by Elon Musk. He originally joined Twitter in 2015 through the acquisition of his company, Periscope, the largest live video streaming platform at the time. Periscope pioneered technology that inspired Instagram Live, TikTok Live, Facebook Live, and other social networks' expansion into video streaming. In our conversation, we discuss:• The story of being let go from Twitter after Elon's acquisition• How he turned Twitter's stagnant culture around• Kayvon's thoughts on the limitations of frameworks like Jobs to Be Done• Why Periscope failed• Advice for building consumer products• When to copy, when to innovate—Brought to you by:• Enterpret—Transform customer feedback into product growth• OneSchema—Import CSV data 10x faster• Heap—Cross-platform product analytics that convert, engage, and retain customers—Find the transcript at: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/twitters-former-head-of-product-kayvon-beykpour—Where to find Kayvon Beykpour:• X: https://twitter.com/kayvz• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayvz/—Where to find Lenny:• Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com• X: https://twitter.com/lennysan• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/—In this episode, we cover:(00:00) Kayvon's background(04:31) Getting Elon up to speed at Twitter(11:34) The story of being let go from Twitter after Elon's acquisition(21:09) Changing the product culture at Twitter(29:44) Building the “hide replies” feature(32:02) Sacred crows, taking bold bets, and reigniting growth(34:28) Aquihires and their impact(42:40) Tips for successful acquisitions and staffing(47:00) The limitations of frameworks like JTBD(53:20) Signs you've gone too far with a framework(57:44) Lessons from building Periscope(01:00:41) Reasons why Periscope failed(01:07:24) The challenges of implementing video at Twitter(01:12:05) Copying ideas in good taste(01:17:58) How to get better at building consumer products(01:19:51) What Kayvon is building(01:20:31) Lightning round—Referenced:• Lessons on building product sense, navigating AI, optimizing the first mile, and making it through the messy middle | Scott Belsky (Adobe, Behance): https://www.lennyspodcast.com/lessons-on-building-product-sense-navigating-ai-optimizing-the-first-mile-and-making-it-through-t/• What it's like to sell your startup for ~$120 million before it's even launched: Meet Twitter's new prized possession, Periscope: https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-periscope-and-why-twitter-bought-it-2015-3• Walter Isaacson on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/walter-isaacson-b8b81520/• Elon Musk on X: https://twitter.com/elonmusk• Parag Agrawal on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/parag-agrawal-5a14742a/• Jack Dorsey on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-dorsey-a43b07242/• Blackboard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_Inc.• Keith Coleman on X: https://twitter.com/kcoleman• Esther Crawford on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/esthercrawford/• Twitter acquires Chroma Labs: https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/twitter-acquires-chroma-labs-story-aqvcRPAoYXqXJuAbefA6cN.html• John Barnett on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnbarnettt/• Jobs to Be Done framework: https://jobs-to-be-done.com/jobs-to-be-done-a-framework-for-customer-needs-c883cbf61c90• Hot takes and techno-optimism from tech's top power couple: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/hot-takes-and-techno-optimism-from-techs-top-power-couple-sriram-and-aarthi/• Nike Is Unveiling the Kobe 11 Tomorrow Using Periscope: https://sneakernews.com/2015/12/13/nike-is-unveiling-the-kobe-11-tomorrow-using-periscope/• Chris Sacca's website: https://chrissacca.com/• Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/formedia/tools/facebook-live• Kevin Hart on X: https://twitter.com/KevinHart4real• Clubhouse: https://www.clubhouse.com/• Vine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine_(service)• Paul Davison on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davison/• Rohan Seth on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohanseth/• Cryptonomicon: https://www.amazon.com/Cryptonomicon-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0380788624• Reamde: https://www.amazon.com/Reamde-Novel-Neal-Stephenson-ebook/dp/B004XVN0WW• The Name of the Wind: https://www.amazon.com/Name-Wind-Kingkiller-Chronicle-Book-ebook/dp/B0010SKUYM• Star Trek official site: https://www.startrek.com/• Dune: part 2: https://www.dunemovie.com/• Oppenheimer on Peacock: https://www.peacocktv.com/stream-movies/oppenheimer• Tokyo Vice on Max: https://www.max.com/shows/tokyo-vice/e7d93204-7f98-4e62-ab52-6c1da053f942• Devs on Hulu: https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/devs• Nick Offerman on X: https://twitter.com/nick_offerman• 3 Body Problem on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81024821• Perplexity AI: https://www.perplexity.ai/• Particle: https://www.particle.news/• Crokinole board game: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/521/crokinole—Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. 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If you enjoyed our discussion, please check out the following media we talked about:Films/TV: SLC Punk (1998; dir. James Merendino), Lost Highway (1997; dir. David Lynch), Clerks (1994; dir. Kevin Smith); We Live In Public (2009; dir. Ondi Timoner); Arrested Development (2003-2006)Music: Third stream jazzBooks: No other books came up this week, but do check out Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson and/or The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster. Follow us on Twitter to see what we're reading from time to timeAs always, thanks so much for listening!Email: ⁠mappingthezonepod@gmail.com⁠Twitter: https://twitter.com/pynchonpodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/mappingthezonepodcast/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D

Cryptonomicon er et vendepunkt i Neal Stephensons forfatterskab. Her forlader han den postmoderne cyberpunk, der kendetegner halvfemserhovedværkerne Snow Crash og The Diamond Age. Nu startede en periode med lange komplekse historiske romaner. Han skriver stadig umiskendeligt Nealsk, men i Cryptonomicon er emnet historisk og kontemporær kryptografi, tilsat konspirationer og en kæmpe guldskat. Indlægget Ep. 110: Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon blev først udgivet på SCIFI SNAK.

- They touched on issues with Amazon Live streaming- Unpacked societal labeling as seen in the is movie "Barbie"- Talked about celebrities like Will Ferrell, Ryan Gosling, and Margot Robbie- They compared "Barbie" with "South Park" highlighting their multiverse themes- Explored the influence of 'woke mob' in Hollywood- Delved into Elon Musk's statement on Twitter censorship during the Joe Rogan show- Underlined the need for laws defining 'reasonable efforts' in the balance between labeling bans and civil rights- Dissected freedom of speech and the role of platforms like Facebook and Twitter- Discussed the differences between newspapers and social platforms- Covered the applications of media laws to new and traditional media- The conversation then went onto the balance between corporate moderation and unrestricted freedom- Warned of the potential dangers of company moderation limiting diverse thoughts- Brought up U.S decisions regarding censorship, and the use of "AllSides" for diverse U.S politics- Reviewed the book "Cryptonomicon", shedding light on WWII, mathematics, and cryptography- The hosts recalled personal encounters with crypto analysis- Dug into challenges and excitement of deciphering "Cryptonomicon", including reader's thoughts- Gave kudos for the immersive gaming experience in "Alan Wake 2"- Analyzed the cross-over narratives in games such as the Elite Dangerous series, Horizon Zero Dawn, and Sony's Star Wars franchise- Reviewed the books "The Art of Thinking Clearly", and "Serial Fun", which delve into biases and game development respectively- Explored AI services for writing book narratives and summaries- Celebrated reaching roughly 500 listeners per episode in the first month of the seasonJoin the conversation in our Discord Community: https://discord.gg/T38WpgkHGQ

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On previous episodes of Faster, Please! — The Podcast and in my newsletter essays, I've argued for the importance of optimistic science fiction. But what exactly qualifies as future-optimistic fiction, and how is it different from utopian literature? To discuss one of my favorite science-fiction book and TV series, The Expanse, and to consider the importance of what fiction tells us about the future, I've brought on Peter Suderman.Peter is features editor at Reason magazine. He has written a number of fantastic pieces on science fiction including "The Fractal, Fractious Politics of The Expanse" in the December 2022 issue of Reason.In This Episode* Does The Expanse count as optimistic science fiction? (1:15)* Optimistic—not utopian—visions of the future (9:10)* The evolution of science fiction (19:30)* The importance of the future sci-fi shows us (27:09)Below is an edited transcript of our conversation.Does The Expanse count as optimistic science fiction?French film director François Truffaut famously claimed it was impossible to make an anti-war film. He said, “I find that violence is very ambiguous in movies. For example, some films claim to be antiwar, but I don't think I've really seen an antiwar film. Every film about war ends up being pro-war.” And that quote, which has always stuck in my head, reemerged in my brain when I came across a somewhat similar observation from Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton, who said, “Futuristic science fiction tends to be pessimistic. If you imagine a future that's wonderful, you don't have a story.” I think some people may interpret that as meaning you cannot write optimistic science fiction.And I think of a show that you have written a long essay about, and I've written about—not as intelligently, but I've written about it from time to time: the TV show The Expanse. And I find The Expanse to be optimistic sci-fi. It takes place in the future, a couple hundred years in the future. Humanity has spread out to Mars and the asteroid belts. There's certainly conflict. As an Expanse fan, someone just wrote an essay on it, would you agree that it's optimistic science fiction?I think it is, with some caveats. The first one is that it's optimistic but it's not utopian. And I think a lot of the argument against optimistic science fiction is actually not really arguing against optimism. It's arguing against utopianism and this idea that you sometimes see—there are hints of it sometimes in Star Trek, especially in Star Trek: The Next Generation—of, in the future humanity will have all of its problems solved, we won't have money, there will be no poverty. If you think about the Earth of Star Trek: The Next Generation's future, it's actually kind of boring, right? There isn't a lot of conflict. Writers eventually found ways to drive conflict out of conflicts between the Federation and other planets and even within the Federation. Because of course, they realized the utopian surface is just a surface. And if you dig down at all beneath it, of course humans would have conflict.But I think a lot of the opposition to the idea of optimistic science fiction just comes from this idea of, “Well, wouldn't it be utopian?” And what The Expanse does is it tells a story that is, I think, inherently optimistic but really deeply not utopian, because it recognizes that progress is not an easy, straight linear line in which everybody comes together and holds hands, and there's a rainbow and My Little Ponies, and everybody just sort of sings, and it's wonderful. That's not how it works. In fact, the way that progress happens is that people have things they want in their lives, and then they seek, either on their own or in coalitions, factions, organizations—whether that's governments, whether that's the private sector, whether that's unions, whatever it is—they organize somehow or another to get the thing that they want. And sometimes they build things. Sometimes they build habitats.And so this is something you see a lot of in The Expanse. Humans have colonized the solar system, as the story begins, and there are just all of these fascinating habitats that humans have built. Some of those habitats actually have problems with them. There are air filtration issues, where you have to constantly be supplying ice from asteroid mining. That sort of thing. Some of the main characters, when we first meet them, are working as ice haulers. Because of course, you would have to have some sort of trade of important resources in space in order to make these habitats work. And you could call this, “That's not optimistic. In fact, a lot of these lives are sort of grubby and unpleasant, and people don't get everything they want.” But I think that misunderstands the idea of progress, because the idea of progress isn't that suddenly everything will be happy and My Little Pony-ish. It's not My Little Pony. It's actually conflict and it's clashing desires and it's clashing ideals about how humans should live. And then it's people kind of working that stuff out amongst themselves, day by day, hour by hour, through coalitions, through organizations, through institutions, through technology, through politics sometimes. And all of those sort of tools and all of those organizational forms have a role. Sometimes they also have drawbacks. All of them have drawbacks to some extent. And then it's just a matter of how are people going work out the problems they have at the moment in order to get to the next place, in order to build the thing they want to build, in order to start the society they want to have.It's a six-season TV show based on a nine-novel series. The six-season TV show adapts the first six books, and then there are three additional books, plus there's a bunch of short stories, novellas, interstitial material. There's this moment that happens in both the TV show and in the books that's really important. And it's about it when humanity finds a way to other solar systems. There are 1300 gates that open up and they can sort of go out and colonize the rest of space. All of these colonies are settled, and each one of them takes on an idea and a culture and often technological capability. There's one of them that's really funny that you meet called Freehold. Frankly, it's a bunch of anarchist libertarian gun nuts who decide to basically ignore all the rules that the trade union that is managing a lot of the trade between the gates has put in place. And they are managing that trade for a good reason. Because if you mess with the gates, if you go through them the wrong way, it kills people, it kills ships, it destroys them. And so you have to go through in order, and you have to go through slowly, and it's this whole sort of process. In Freehold, they‘re a bunch of difficult, crazy anarchist-like libertarian gun nuts who don't want to play by the rules. And at first they're a problem. You can see why that would be a problem for the social organizational form that has come up in these books from managing the gates and making sure that they don't kill people. But later, when basically a super powerful high-tech imperial planet that has designs on controlling all of humanity and putting all of humanity under the thumb of basically one emperor who has plans to live forever—it's sort of this, become a kind of a god who is ruling over all of humanity and then basically turn all of humans into like a hive mind but for the good of humanity so that we'll survive—when you have that all-encompassing, super powerful collectivist impulse that is threatening human civilization, it turns out that the libertarian anarchist gun nuts at Freehold are actually pretty good friends to have. This series does a bunch of interesting work of noting that, yes, of course those people can be difficult at times, and they can present problems to social cohesion. At the same time, it's not bad to have them as allies when you are threatened by an authoritarian.Optimistic—not utopian—visions of the futureYou've nailed it. Well done. I view it as optimistic but not utopian—I think that's a key point—particularly compared to how the future is often portrayed. I think it's pretty optimistic because no zombies. We're still around. And the world looks like it's doing okay. Was there climate change? Sure. But New York is surrounded by barriers. Clearly there's been disruption, but we kept moving forward. Now we're this multi-planetary civilization, so it doesn't look like we're going to get killed by an asteroid anytime soon.I think a big mistake that a lot of the pessimists about the future in politics and our culture generally, but in science fiction as well—a big mistake that they make is that they think only in terms of grand plans. They think in terms of mass systems of social control and social organization. And so when you see an apocalypse, it's “all the governments have failed and so has capitalism.” When you see an apocalypse, it's “the oceans swallowed us because we used too much energy or the wrong kind of energy.” And that's it. The grand plan didn't work. And then we're in a hellscape after that. And what you see in The Expanse, what makes it so smart, is grand plans actually do fail.Almost any time somebody has a big sweeping theory of how we're going to reorganize human social organization, of how humanity is going to be totally different from now on—almost anytime that someone has that sort of theory in The Expanse series, it doesn't work out. And often that person is revealed to be a bad guy, or at least somebody who has a bad way of thinking about the world. Instead, progress comes in fits and starts, and it's made on a much smaller scale by these ad hoc coalitions of people who are constantly changing their coalitions. Sometimes you want something that requires building something, that requires a new technology. And so you ally with people who are engineer types, and you work with them to build something. At the end of it, you've got the thing that they've built, and your life is a little bit better, or at least you've accomplished one of your goals. And then maybe after that, those people, the engineers, actually it turns out that they have a culture that is not cooperative with yours. And so you're going to ally with a different political faction and the engineers are going to be on the other side of it, but they've still built the little thing that you needed them to build. And it's just this idea that big systems and big plans that assume that everything falls in line, those plans don't work, and they do fail. And if that's your idea of how we're going to make progress, that's a bad idea. The way we make progress is…In a Hayekian sense, all our individual wants and needs cannot be incorporated in this grand system or grand plan. Our wants and needs today, much less how those will evolve over time. Our future wants and needs don't fit into the plan either.Yeah, this is right. This is one of the issues I have with a lot of zombie fiction, is that it just sort of assumes that after the zombie apocalypse—the zombie apocalypse is not all that realistic, but you can imagine a scenario in which there is something environmental that really goes very bad for humanity; that's not out of the realm of possibility—but what a lot of the zombie apocalypse fiction assumes, then, is that in the decades or years afterwards no one will really find ways to work with other people towards shared goals. Or at best, they'll do so in a really ugly and simplistic way where somebody sets up a society that's walled off but it's ruled by some evil authoritarian and you're living under this person's thumb.I grew up in Florida, and so we had hurricanes. One of the things you see when you have hurricanes is that, yes, there is a government response and they send out trucks and power company officials and all of that sort of thing. But people drive around the neighborhood with chainsaws and cut up the trees that have fallen across your driveway. And other people who may not have chainsaws go and help their friends move the stuff out of their bedroom where the tree fell into the bedroom through the ceiling and there's been some leakages. It's just sort of people working together in these informal coalitions, these little neighborhood local groups, to help each other out and to try to fix things that have broken and gone wrong. It's not fun. It's not like, “Oh man, hurricanes, they're wonderful. We shouldn't worry about them at all!” We should, and we should try to build resilience against them and that sort of thing.At the same time, when disaster strikes, often what you see—not always, but often what you see—is that people come back together and they survey the problems and they work to fix them minute by minute, hour by hour in little ways. And sometimes the first thing you do is, “Well, I got a hole in my roof. I'm going to stretch garbage bags across it so that the next time it rains…” And then you got a hole in your roof with garbage bags across it for a couple of weeks. But that's a solution for the time. It's better than a hole in your roof. On the other hand, you got a hole in your roof. It sucks. But that's progress relative to the hole that's there. That's a way that a lot of people who don't think about engineering, who don't think in a Hayekian manner, it's something that they miss. Because they only think about big systems and big plans. And big systems and big plans do have big risks, and they do often fail. But that's not how humans figure out how to move forward and how to make their life better.An interesting aspect is that, you mentioned how at some point these gates open so we're no longer stuck in the solar system. We can go to any of these other planetary systems. And what's interesting is the devastating effect this has on the planet Mars, which is its own world, its own government, it has its own military, it's independent of Earth. But it's a society that was built around one big idea, which is terraforming Mars and creating a sustainable civilization. And when that goal didn't look important anymore, that was it. It fell apart. People left. There was no resilience, there was no ability to adapt. To me, that's one of the most interesting twists I've seen in science fiction. When the grand plan fails, the whole thing falls apart because they never assumed the grand plan wouldn't work.The Mars example is great because it shows what I think is one of the biggest problems in political thinking and in kind of bad science-fiction storytelling. It's a great demonstration of steady state thinking, where people think that the current arrangement of power and resources is going to persist forever. And so Mars in The Expanse story was basically a competitor with Earth, which in The Expanse universe was the sort of political home of humanity as well as the bread basket. It's where of all the food was produced. And then the asteroid belt, which is sort of the rough and tumble outer world—the outer world were the resource extractors. They provided for the inner systems. They kind of had a blue-collar vibe to them. There was some terrorist activity that came out of this because they were resentful. There's sort of some interesting cultural and subcultural effects there. And then Mars was heavily military and high tech, and they thought that would be their competitive advantage.Almost a quasi-fascist state, in a way. It was very militaristic and authoritarian.Yes, which comes back to pay off in a big way in the final three books of the trilogy which, unfortunately, the shows don't adapt, but are in some ways, I think, the best of the books. And so much of our politics is built around that idea that this power structure, this arrangement of resources that we have right now where everybody's on Facebook, where everybody is on Twitter, where everybody uses Google search, that's going to last forever. And the only way you can dislodge it is through government and through regulation and through interventions that are designed to break that sort of thing up. I'm thinking very specifically of antitrust, and a lot of antitrust theories are predicated on this. But there are other realms in which this sort of approach to regulation and to politics is quite common as well.And in The Expanse, you see, guess what? Those power structures—even power structures that have persisted in the case of The Expanse books at least for decades and I think for a couple of hundred years that's basically been the arrangement as we sort of enter the story—even those arrangements that seem like they're immutable facts of human organization—Oh, this is how politics has always been; this is how the arrangement of national power (effectively in this story) has always been arranged—those things can change, and they can change because of environmental changes and they can change because of technological developments that people don't foresee.The evolution of science fictionIt seems to me that you had this period during the Space Race, the Atomic Age, ‘50s, ‘60s, in which there was lots of somewhat optimistic science fiction. You obviously had Star Trek and even I would say 2001: A Space Odyssey. You could go to the Jetsons, but then you started not seeing that. And to me, it seems like there's a pretty sharp dividing line there in the late ‘60s, early ‘70s, and I've written about that. Am I making too much out of that, that there was a change? Or has it always been like this and we started noticing it more because we started doing more science fiction?I don't think you're wrong to notice that. And I think there was a big change in the 1970s. I think maybe one place to start, if you're thinking about that, though, is actually something like 100 years before the 1970s.That would be the 1870s!Yeah. In the 1870s, in the 1890s, maybe even a little bit before then. This maybe tells you how naive I was as a seven- or an eight-year-old, but I started reading science fiction when I was around eight years old. My parents were big fans, and I of course watched Star Trek even starting when I was four or five. Star Wars, that sort of thing. I grew up in a real nerd household, and something that I heard when I was I believe in fourth grade that just blew my mind—but of course, it is super obvious when you hear it—is for a long time in human history, we didn't have science fiction. We didn't have it at all. And you go back to the 1700s, to the 1800s, you start to see little bits of it. Jules Verne, even maybe some of Edgar Allan Poe. But it wasn't until the Industrial Revolution and then some of the fiction that sort of came out decades into the Industrial Revolution. It wasn't until relatively recently in human history that people had the idea that the future would be different, because that's the heart of what science fiction is. It is the idea that the future will be different because humans will organize themselves differently, and/or because we will have invented new technologies that make our lives different.And you go back to 1000 AD or 1200 or 1500 even, and you just don't see that idea present in fiction and in storytelling because essentially no one imagined that the future would be different. They thought it would be the way it was in their time forever. And they assumed that it had basically been the same forever. That humanity's social and technological and resource arrangements would be steady state. And something happened in the ‘30s and ‘40s with the early science fiction that really predicated on this idea that, “Oh, wait! The future will be different and it will be better.” And then you get to the 1970s and things start to look a little bit shaky in world affairs, especially in the Western world, right? And what happens is that then is reflected in a lot of popular science fiction, where you start to see this more pessimistic view, this idea that the future will be different but it will be worse. And it will be worse because all of the things we rely on for the present will fail. I don't think that that's an illegitimate mode of storytelling in any way. I, in fact, really like a lot of…Even as I've harangued against them, those are all super enjoyable movies. I just wish there were the other kind too. And it seems to me that maybe we're starting to get more of the other kind again. I mean, we don't have a lot of examples.So about 10 or 15 years ago, there was literally a movement in science fiction led by people like Neal Stephenson, the author of most prominently Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, and Snow Crash in the 1990s, but also some more recent stuff as well. And he was like, “We need ideas about the future that are, if not utopian, then at least sort of optimistic. Ideas about things that we will do that will be better, not things that we will do that will make everything worse and that will sort of contribute to suffering and to collapse.” And Stevenson has been a leading proponent both of other writers doing that but then of doing it himself.Since we were talking about ad hoc coalitions and small-scale problem solving, his novel Termination Shock, I think from two years ago, is a quasi-science-fiction novel about global warming set in the near future in which global warming has both become a real problem and also one that people have started to find a lot of small-scale ways to, not solve exactly, but to address on a personal level. When the novel begins, there are a lot of houses on stilts in Texas because there are flooding issues. But what, they just picked up their houses and they put them on stilts. And people have to wear these sort of Dune-like suits that cool them. There are all these sort of crazy traveling caravans of people who live not in any particular place, but then there are these mega truck stops that have sprung up to meet their needs and sort of become these kind of travel hubs. And then, of course, people start trying to not solve global warming, exactly, but to mitigate global warming kind of locally by shooting stuff into the air that blocks reflections of the atmosphere. Of course, that causes some problems. He's not just sort of like, “Yeah, we can just fix this.” But he's like, “This sort of thing is how problems get solve solved. They don't get solved through politics and grand, multi-lateral agreements.”Of course, I would also point to another Stephenson novel, which is Seveneves, which is a novel in which things get about as dark for humanity as possible. We're down to seven people, and then we come all the way back and beyond.And it's all through distributed solutions. There's a great bit: You get down to the final seven people and then you flash forward, I think it's like 5,000 years. There's just a great like section header in this book. You're like 700 pages into a 1000-page book and suddenly it just says, “5,000 years later.” Okay, okay, I guess. Sure, Neal Stephenson, you can do that. 5,000 years later. And you see that humanity is flourishing again because somehow or another you have distributed rings, habitat systems around the Earth. You have the submarine people. We don't really know what they did, but the submarine people somehow or another figured it out. There are still some Earth-dwellers who survived in caves, like probably the Mars people who just like took off for Mars in the middle of the catastrophe. We think they survived somehow too. Part of this is, there's a kind of cheat in that book in which he doesn't tell you how all of these people survived, but there's also a kind of genius and a truth in that, in that we don't know how it's going to go. But what we know is that when put to the test, people have—not always, I don't want to say it just works 100 percent of the time, because sometimes there are true catastrophes in the world—but people, when put to the test, when your survival, the survival of you, your family, your friends, and the future of your race is on the line, people have figured out ways to survive that their predecessors would never have imagined because they never had to.The importance of the future sci-fi shows usIs it important that we have popular culture that gives us images of the future, a variety of images, to shoot for?I think it's incredibly important. I think even people who think it's important underrate how important it is. Because most people, even the smartest, most innovative people, they're… People are modelers. They kind of do things that they've seen done, even if it's that they've seen it in a story. And I just think about my own history and my own life. I grew up in a household where there wasn't, I would say, a lot of political ideology. It was in the background, but my parents like didn't actually talk about politics that much. It was just that one of them was quite liberal and the other one was quite conservative. And there were differing radio programs that I would hear in the company of one versus the other.But they were both, like I said, science fiction readers. And there was science fiction just all over our house. The first adult science-fiction novel I read was The Caves of Steel, which I was given when I was in fourth grade, eight-years-old. It's like Isaac Asimov's sort of Agatha Christie murder-mystery-in-the-future, in a futuristic New York, story. I was totally hooked after that. I just didn't ever go back. Read science fiction. And like I said, what science fiction gave me was this idea that the future would be different and that maybe—maybe—it could be better in some ways. And I think that if you just listen to interviews and talk to the people who are at the head of some of the most innovative companies in the world and in the United States right now, one through-line you see is that maybe not all of them, but a surprising number of them were science fiction readers growing up as kids.And they spent a lot of time, as a result, just sort of imagining the future. And imagining that it would be different. And I think that exercise, just being drawn into that kind of imagination of a world that is different than the one we live in now and different because people have invented things, because people have reorganized politics, because of whatever it is, but a world that is different because the future will be different—that is an exercise that we need more people to engage in. And when people do it, I think the results… I frankly think that even reading pessimistic science fiction is better than reading none at all, because again, it just constantly hammers home this idea [that] the future will be different. It's not a steady state. That progress or maybe anti-progress can be made.I think it certainly matters on that sort of doer, elite level, where you do have all these entrepreneurs, Silicon Valley folks, who obviously were really inspired by science fiction. Also, I think it's just important for everybody else. I just can't imagine, if people have gotten more of that, not only would they be a bit more resilient to the super negativity. It would just create more dreamers among people about what the future can be. Not utopia, but better. I'll take better.I'll take better as well. And I think that storytellers have a big role to play in that. And I think that anybody who creates images, who is an imaginer for the popular consciousness, has some influence here. Because like I said, people call to mind what they have seen before and people operate based on the ideas that have been handed to them. I certainly would like to see more of those stories. And I would also just like to say that if you're a person who tells stories and who makes images and who tries to sort of worm your way into the public consciousness, obviously you can do it through fear. But wouldn't it be better, wouldn't you feel a little more proud of yourself if you could do it through hope and through making people think that maybe there's something wonderful coming?Star Trek and Star Wars, which is the capitalist show, which is the communist show?Star Trek: The Next Generation's pilot episode is about how basically energy capitalism is inherently bad. The Ferengi are the super capitalists. It's really hard to make like a strong “Star Trek is a pro-capitalist show” argument. Maybe. You get a little bit into that with some of the Deep Space Nine stuff later. But even there, that's mostly just about political conflict. Does that mean that Star Wars is the pro-capitalist show? I don't know. I mean, people do seem to have jobs and buy and sell stuff and make things. I guess I'd have to go with Star Wars just because you can buy droids when you need help on your farm? That's all I got. This is a public episode. 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Neal Stephenson, author and Co-founder of LAMINA1, joins Patrick Cozzi (Cesium) and Marc Petit (Epic Games) to share what inspired him to write books like Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon, and his thoughts on the technology necessary to empower and pay creators in the open metaverse.

In this episode we turn things on it's head! Di Mayze (Global Head of Data and AI at WPP) takes on the role of "super guest" and poses a series of tough questions about blockchains to our host, Sara Robertson (Global VP, Disruption at Xaxis). This discussion provides the listener a good foundational understanding of blockchains covering topics ranging from what is blockchain technology, where did it come from and where it is going, why you should care, what it enables, and the disruptive potential it presents in it's role enabling Web 3 experiences and more. It even includes a good joke to bring to your next cocktail party as a bonus! Di makes learning fun and together with Sara manages to turn a potentially complex and daunting subject into something that is interesting and understandable. Thank you for listening! We hope you enjoy this episode. #stayclassymetaverse Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin Whitepaper - a worthwhile read Sara mentions this book: Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephensen Please “Share” with others and “Follow” us to stay abreast of each new episode. Click here for more information about WPP, the creative transformation company.

Thanks to our awesome Patrons, we're proud to present another episode of Mediasplode! Running Time: 01:00:00 This month, Josh Flanagan and Conor Kilpatrick are joined by their original Pick of the Week co-host Ron Richards to discuss... What We've Been Enjoying: 00:01:37 - Josh has been watching The Bear and listening to Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle. 00:05:43 - Conor has been watching The Orville: New Horizons and Only Murders in the Building and watched Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, Father of the Bride, and Fire Island. 00:08:55 - Josh's wife has been watching way more of The Bear than she was supposed to. 00:09:17 - Ron saw Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain and Elvis. Mail Bag: 00:16:06 - Dan from Baltimore, Maryland asks about how to decide between director's cuts vs. theatrical cuts when choosing to watch a film. 00:19:43 - Ken from The Great White North wants to know what constitutes a gangster film and which are the greatest of all time. 00:27:01 - Cory from Cleveland, Ohio wants to know how The Pacific stacks up against Band of Brothers. 00:29:44 - Adrian Z. asks which type of media the guys would give up if they had to give up one. 00:35:40 - Patrick W. wants to know what everyone thought of season three of Barry. 00:39:05 - Greg M. from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania asks about Star Wars toys. 00:43:27 - Adam from Chicago, Illinois has an unusual way of eating a slice of pizza. Game Time: 00:48:06 - The guys play the new game that's sweeping the nation: "Who Should Tom Hanks Play?" SPOILERS ABOVE! What's a Mediasplode? It's a monthly special edition show in which we talk about what we are enjoying in media outside of the realm of comic books. It's like our All Media Year End Round-Up but in a shorter, monthly format. Music: "That's All Right" Elvis Presley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Super Fun Time Trivia Podcast, we discuss the horrifying monster known as The Cocklops, drinking Orbitz softdrinks to induce choking, what its like to take 17 drugs from a shirtless man on the street, and I give a shoutout to the 3 people who might have read Neal Stephenson's book Cryptonomicon. Music Round: Covid (HOPEFULLY THE LAST ONE) Patreon: Super Fun Time Trivia Facebook: superfuntimetrivia Instagram: superfuntimetrivia Twitter: @sftimetrivia Email: superfuntimetrivia@gmail.com Intro Music By David Dino White. Welcome to Super Fun Time Trivia: The known universe's only live improv comedy trivia podcast.

Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Matt is so-so towards the book, and Ben gives his reasons for why listeners should check out “Cryptonomicon.”

Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Matt is so-so towards the book, and Ben gives his reasons for why listeners should check out “Cryptonomicon.”

Bestselling author Neal Stephenson is known for delivering novels with poignant and incisive reflections on our present and future. He's also no stranger to the Town Hall stage and has joined us in the past to discuss his novel Fall and collaborative work with Nicole Galland, The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O., among others. Stephenson returned to the Town Hall stage to discuss his newest thriller, Termination Shock. In his speculative vision of the not-too-distant future, sea levels are rising, heatwaves and global flooding endure, and deadly pandemics threaten humanity. When the rest of the world continues to respond with inaction, a billionaire hatches a plan that will quickly throw climate change into reverse — but action at such a grand scale is anything but simple. There are consequences of global proportion, and some of them might even be worse than climate change itself. Stephenson's discussion invited audiences to consider questions that can extend far beyond fiction and resonate with us in the present day: Will the world ever be able to take urgent action on climate change? What is the role of technology in this fight? Is there a role for motivated billionaires? What if the answers to these questions are highly unconventional? Stephenson invited us to expand our minds, and ask. Neal Stephenson is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels Fall; or, Dodge in Hell, Seveneves, Reamde, Anathem, The System of the World, The Confusion, Quicksilver, Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac, and the groundbreaking nonfiction work In the Beginning . . . Was the Command Line. He is also the coauthor, with Nicole Galland, of The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. He lives in Seattle, Washington. Buy the Book: Termination Shock: A Novel (Hardcover) from Elliott Bay Books Presented by Town Hall Seattle. To become a member or make a donation click here. 

Nach längerer Pause gibt es endlich wieder eine Neue Folge des Thekenschnacks. Diese ist aber noch aus dem Sommer als sich die Gäste Real beim Barkeeper trafen um gemeinsam zu Essen und evtl. das eine oder andere Alkoholische Getränk zu sich zu nehmen..

Artificial Intelligence Podcast Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Check out Lex Fridman Podcast Episode Page & Show NotesRead the full notes @ podcastnotes.orgNeal Stephenson is a sci-fi writer (Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and new book Termination Shock), former Chief Futurist at Magic Leap and first employee of Blue Origin. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Mizzen+Main: https://mizzenandmain.com and use code LEX to get $35 off – InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.com/lex and use code Lex25 to get 25% off – Athletic Greens: https://athleticgreens.com/lex and use code LEX to get 1 month of fish oil – Grammarly: https://grammarly.com/lex to get 20% off premium – ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/lexpod and use code LexPod to get 3 months free EPISODE LINKS: Neal's Twitter: https://twitter.com/nealstephenson Neal's Website: https://www.nealstephenson.com/

Neal Stephenson is a sci-fi writer (Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and new book Termination Shock), former Chief Futurist at Magic Leap and first employee of Blue Origin. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Mizzen+Main: https://mizzenandmain.com and use code LEX to get $35 off – InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.com/lex and use code Lex25 to get 25% off – Athletic Greens: https://athleticgreens.com/lex and use code LEX to get 1 month of fish oil – Grammarly: https://grammarly.com/lex to get 20% off premium – ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/lexpod and use code LexPod to get 3 months free EPISODE LINKS: Neal's Twitter: https://twitter.com/nealstephenson Neal's Website: https://www.nealstephenson.com/

La puntata in cui dico finalmente la verità: questo podcast è la mia tesi di laurea, abbandonata agli inizi dei 2000. L'ho capito in corsa, che stavo arrivando qui.E quindi torniamo alla Bologna di fine 90, con una puntata per rallentare il battito, e avere il tempo di mettere le cose in prospettiva. Dal nuovo mercato pubblicitario digitale all'evoluzione delle interfacce per iniziare a riflettere sul cambiamento che era iniziato.Un po' di teoria, insomma, dalla semiotica appresa alle adv online praticate: inizia davvero il nostro viaggio nella prima era cyberpunk del genere umano.---Bibliografia pop:https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quando_eravamo_rehttps://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_banda_dei_brocchihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_60_on_the_Sunset_Striphttps://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_si_fa_una_tesi_di_laureahttps://www.adelphi.it/libro/9788845935053 (ma recuperate almeno le lezioni brevi, prima)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCBHtER91ykhttps://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromantehttps://www.amazon.it/Figure-del-corpo-semiotica-dellimpronta/dp/8883532392https://www.feltrinellieditore.it/opera/opera/microservi-1/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon

December 8, 1941 came like a storm as the Japanese aircraft began bombing and strafing Manila and other American outposts in the Phillippines Island, at that time an American colony. For Karen Lewis, the daughter of an American accountant for a gold mining company, it started out as an adventure - leaving the mining camp at Baguio to head for safety in Manila. It quickly became much more harrowing - three years of confinement in Santo Tomas, a Catholic University just across the Pasig River from the city proper, along with 3,000 other mostly American and English detainees. Karen was 9 years old at the time, and witnessed the resilience and determination of the adults to organize a highly functioning and organized community, with school, dining halls, sanitation and entertainment under the watchful eye of their Japanese civilian commandant. But when he left after a year and was replaced with a military commander, things took a darker turn, and discipline often proved brutal and rations dwindled down to starvation portions. News was hard to come by, but filtered through hidden transistor radios as the Allied offensive pushed the Japanese back through the South Pacific to the gates of Santo Tomas, shortly after MacArthur's prophesied return. We talk about her daily life in the camp, how it was organized and how it functioned, as well as the odd coincidences and humanity from detainees and guards alike. Lewis gathered up her story along with three other women for "Interrupted Lives: Four Women's Stories of Internment During WWII." The well-known painter and stalwart of the Ojai Studio Artists has lived in Ojai for 30+ years and stays active with gatherings of Santo Tomas survivors. We did not talk about Joe DiMaggio, Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon or William Howard Taft.

جادی میرمیرانی مهمان این قسمت کتابگرد است. جادی در مورد اصطلاح گیک حرف می‌زند و اینکه چه شد از برنامه‌نویسی رفت سراغ جامعه‌شناسی. آدرس ایمیل پادکست: ketabgardpodcast@gmail.com آدرس توییتر کتابگرد: https://twitter.com/ketabgardp آدرس توییتر جادی: https://twitter.com/jadi آدرس اینستاگرام جادی: https://www.instagram.com/jadijadinet/ لینک کتاب‌های این قسمت در طاقچه: https://click.adtrace.io/540vppd کتاب‌های محبوب جادی دنیای سوفی؛ یوستین گوردر راهنمای کهکشان برای اتواستاپ‌زن‌ها؛ داگلاس آدامز برادر کوچک ؛ کوری دکتروف کتاب‌هایی که برای هدیه پیشنهاد دادم گزارش اقلیت؛ فلیپ.کی. دیک همه دروغ می‌گویند ؛ ست استیونز دیویدویتس یخچال انیشتین ؛ جینو سگره لیست کتاب‌هایی که در این گفت‌وگو از آن‌ها حرف زدیم فقط برای تفریح؛ لینوس تروالدز تاریخ فلسفه راتلج ؛ ج. اچ.آر پارکینسون ارباب حلقه‌ها؛ .آر.آر تالکین مردی به نام اووه؛ فردریک بکمن گتسبی بزرگ؛ اسکات فیتز جرالد ماجراهای تن تن ؛ هرژه ۱۹۸۴ جورج ارول قلعه حیوانات؛ جورج ارول پیرمرد صدساله‌ای که پنجره بیرون پرید و ناپدید شد؛ یوناس یوناسون اودیسه فضایی ؛ آرتور کلارک عامه‌پسند ؛ چارلز بوکوفسکی زنان؛ چارلز بوکوفسکی بازی‌های جنی؛ دیوید بیشاف دنیای قشنگ نو؛ آلدوس هاکسلی دنیای تئو؛ کاترین کلمان حتما شوخی می‌کنید اقای فاینمن؛ ریچارد فاینمن ؛ نیل استیونسنSnow Crash ؛ نیل استیونسنCryptonomicon رمز داوینچی؛ دن براون قصر بلورین؛ فیلیس آیزنشتاین همسایه‌ها؛ احمد محمود چنین کنند بزرگان؛ ویل کاپی کتاب‌های سداریس با ترجمه پیمان خاکسار حامی پادکست: طاقچه

Rick Howard, the CyberWire's Chief Analyst, CSO, and Senior Fellow discusses his favorite cyber novels to distract us from our current emergency situation: "Threat Vector” by Tom Clancy and Mark Greaney, “Neuromancer,” by William Gibson, “Breakpoint,” by Richard A. Clarke, and his favorite hacker novel of all time, “Cryptonomicon,” by Neal Stephenson.

El Bitcoin mola, las cadenas de bloques más, y van a ser una revolución tan grande como el sistema DNS o el TCPIP. Pero de momento no vemos necesidad de utilizar criptomonedas ni creemos que la situación cambie en el futuro inmediato. Patrocinador: Si te gusta escuchar podcasts, Audible te va a encantar. Es la plataforma de podcasts y audiolibros de Amazon, con miles y miles de contenidos en español para escuchar. Añaden títulos nuevos todas las semanas, tanto clásicos como estrenos esperados, desde Patria, de Fernando Aranburu, hasta Aquitania, de Eva Gª Sean de Urturi, el último premio planeta. La saga completa de Harry Potter narrada por Leonor Watling, las novelas de Sherlock Holmes leídas por José Coronado… y muchos más. Enlaces Neal Stephenson dice que no inventó Bitcoin Cryptonomicon: Moneda digital, diez años antes de bitcoin Antes de Cryptonomicon, cuento de Neal Stephenson sobre moneda digital Venezuela es el cuarto país que mas volumen de Bitcoin ha comerciado en toda la historia ¿Cuáles son los 6 países que más comerciaron con bitcoin en Latinoamérica? | Cripto247 Anexo:Historial de precios de bitcoin – Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre Coinbase Files for an IPO El cripto maximalismo salvaje Bitcoin: 570.000 millones evaporados en 11 meses — mixx.io — Cuonda Criptoamérica — Kernel — Cuonda Síguenos en Twitter @haciafalta

Welcome back to HCC! This episode the Guys are back to give updates and recommendations on stuff they like! Recommendations: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Community or [Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephson (if you want no life)] Peaky Blinders / Mythic Quest Links: Join our mailing list! Follow us on Insta Join our Discord! Subscribe to our on Apple or Spotify Deuces --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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This episode we’re talking about Comfort Reads! We discuss what makes something a comfort read, re-reading books, Animal Crossing, nostalgia, horror movies, problematic faves, listening to music on repeat, and more! Plus: Special guest stars galore! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Comfort Reads Discussed The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling Dear Prudence (and the other Slate advice columns) Captain Awkward Carolyn Hax Ask A Manager Dear Sugar Dumbing of Age by David Willis Octopus Pie by Meredith Gran YU + ME = Dream by Megan Rose Gedris Books by Tamora Pierce Nightrunner series by Lynn Flewelling The Others series by Anne Bishop Books by Mary Roach Books by Sarah Vowell Books by David Sedaris Get Fuzzy series by Darby Conley Read online Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson Read online Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson  Tales from Another Mother Runner: Triumphs, Trials, Tips, and Tricks from the Road edited by Sarah Bowen Shea and Dimity McDowell Discworld series by Terry Pratchett Desert Island Discworld podcast Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce Comfort Reads Mentioned by Our Guests The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien Batman: Arkham Asylum by Grant Morrison and Dave McKean Mountains and Rivers Without End by Gary Snyder Includes Night Highway 99 Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton Grease Bats by Archie Bongiovanni The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis The Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R. Tolkien The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl series by Ryan North, Erica Henderson, Derek Charm, Rico Renzi, and others. The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Beats Up the Marvel Universe by Ryan North and Erica Henderson Pastwatch series by Orson Scott Card Homecoming Saga by Orson Scott Card   (Thank you to  Inti, Kelsey, Helen, Jean, and Sam!)   Other Media we Mentioned Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake Anne of Green Gables (1985 film) (Wikipedia) Jack Reacher series by Lee Child Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed Diablo (Wikipedia) Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Wikipedia) Books We Discovered Because of the Podcast Red Spider White Web by Misha Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede Your Republic Is Calling You by Young-Ha Kim The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson Links, Articles, and Things ASMR (Autonomous sensory meridian response) (Wikipedia) HEA stands for “Happily Ever After” Audio Cassette Tape Open Close Play Stop by Bertrof Episode 089 - Other People’s Faves (that we do not like) The Besties Podcast: Animal Crossing New Horizons will save us all! Suggest new genres or titles! Fill out the form to suggest genres! Send Us Your Comfort Reads! Email them to bookclub4m@gmail.com! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, June 2nd we’ll be discussing the genre of Literary Fiction. Then on Tuesday, June 16th we’ll each be pitching a book we think all of us should read and discuss on the podcast! You get to vote!

Rick Howard, the CyberWire’s Chief Analyst, CSO, and Senior Fellow discusses his favorite cyber novels to distract us from our current emergency situation: "Threat Vector” by Tom Clancy and Mark Greaney, “Neuromancer,” by William Gibson, “Breakpoint,” by Richard A. Clarke, and his favorite hacker novel of all time, “Cryptonomicon,” by Neal Stephenson. Learn more about CSO Perspectives. 

Joel Fulton’s journey began in Alaska as a free range kid with dreams of becoming a fireman to ultimately find him in one of the most prestigious CISO roles in cyber security at Splunk. Our conversation twists through his time as a computer auditor, MMA fighter, an author, a salesman, a PhD student and a few other positions in between. Our dialogue with Joel showcases the breadth of his interests as well as his gift for taking seemingly unrelated concepts and connecting them to illustrate a point, from choke holds to The Philosopher’s Toolkit all the way to systematic dismemberment. Joel’s interview offers plenty of practical examples for aspiring and longtime CISOs, breaking down how he thinks about discovery, orchestration and security training. Even at 80 minutes, this episode feels far too short.

Neal Stephenson author of Fall, or Dodge in Hell in conversation with Long Now Board Member, Kevin Kelly. Tickets include a signed copy of Fall, or Dodge in Hell. The Interval at Long Now: check-in starts at 12 noon. The talk will begin @ 12:30pm. Neal Stephenson will inscribe books after the event from 1:30 to 2pm. Additional books will be on sale before and after the talk thanks to Borderlands Books. Fall, or Dodge in Hell is pure, unadulterated fun: a grand drama of analog and digital, man and machine, angels and demons, gods and followers, the finite and the eternal. In this exhilarating epic, Neal Stephenson raises profound existential questions and touches on the revolutionary breakthroughs that are transforming our future. Combining the technological, philosophical, and spiritual in one grand myth, he delivers a mind-blowing speculative literary saga for the modern age. Neal Stephenson is the bestselling author of the novels Reamde, Anathem, The System of the World, The Confusion, Quicksilver, Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac, and the groundbreaking nonfiction work "In the Beginning...Was the Command Line." He lives in Seattle, Washington.

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When you are reading a Neal Stephenson novel you know you're going to get two kinds of experience in one book. Whether it's in a work like his revolutionary science fiction novel Snow Crash, his era-jumping adventure-slash-code epic Cryptonomicon, or his swashbuckling historical trilogy The Baroque Cycle, Stephenson brings high-wire thought experiments about the nature of technology and human society to life via engrossing, turn-off-your-phone-until-it's over feats of storytelling. Stephenson's books can look intimidatingly hefty on arrival — and his new novel, Fall: Or, Dodge in Hell — is no exception. But I'm not only speaking for myself when I say that for many readers, a few pages in is all it takes to make the ending of a Stephenson novel come all too soon. Fall is vintage Stephenson, a book stuffed with ideas about death and the afterlife, about real and virtual realities, the way social media-driven information is fragmenting our world. It's also a tale of gods and monsters, shape shifters and heroes, where Dungeons and Dragons and a children's book of Greek myths meet. Neal Stephenson joined us in the studio to talk about Fall and the endless power of story.

Bestselling author Neal Stephenson is known for delivering novels with poignant and incisive reflections on our present and future. Now the acclaimed novelist joins us for a Town Hall conversation about his latest book Fall; or, Dodge in Hell. The story follows billionaire magnate Richard “Dodge” Forthrast who is left suddenly braindead after a mishap during a routine medical procedure. Per his will, Dodge’s brain is scanned and its data structures uploaded and stored in the cloud until it can eventually be revived. When Dodge’s digital brain is reactivated, the accomplishment shatters the human understanding of death and leads to the creation of an eternal digital afterlife. But this brave new immortal world is not the Utopia it might first seem. Stephenson took the stage to discuss this grand drama of analog and digital, raising profound existential questions and touching on the revolutionary breakthroughs that are transforming our future. Join Stephenson for a deep dive into his latest mind-blowing speculative literary saga for the modern age. Neal Stephenson is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Reamde, Anathem, The System of the World, The Confusion, Quicksilver, Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac, and the groundbreaking nonfiction work In the Beginning . . . Was the Command Line. Recorded live at The Great Hall by Town Hall Seattle on June 3, 2019. 

While recognizing that quantum mechanics “demands serious attention,” Albert Einstein in 1926 admonished that the theory “does not bring us closer to the secrets of the Old One.” Aware that “there are deep mysteries that Nature intends to keep for herself,” 94-year-old theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson has chronicled the stories of those who were engaged in solving some of the most challenging quandaries of twentieth-century physics. To offer us a rare glimpse into scientific history, Dyson came to our stage to share his life story through a series of autobiographical letters and recount many major advances in science that made the field what it is today. Dyson met for a conversation with renowned speculative fiction author Neal Stephenson—and the pair were joined by moderator Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study. Dyson and Stephenson delved into Dyson’s letters to relatives, which rendered a historic account of modern science and its greatest players, including J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking, and Hans Bethe. Dyson reflected on the horrors of World War II, the moral dilemmas of nuclear development, the challenges of the space program, and the considerable demands of raising six children. Join Dyson and Stephenson for a firsthand account of one of the greatest periods of scientific discovery of our modern age. Professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Freeman Dyson is an English-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician. His work unified the three versions of quantum electrodynamics invented by Feynman, Schwinger and Tomonaga, and he went on to work on nuclear reactors, solid state physics, ferromagnetism, astrophysics, and biology. He is the author of numerous books including Disturbing the Universe, Weapons and Hope, Infinite in All Directions, and Origins of Life. Neal Stephenson is the bestselling author of numerous works of speculative fiction, historical fiction, and science fiction. His work includes books such as Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, Anathem, The Diamond Age, and The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.. He has received multiple accolades for his books, including the 1996 Hugo Award for Best Novel (The Diamond Age), the Arthur C. Clarke Award (Quicksilver), and the 2009 Prometheus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (The System of the World). Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study and Leon Levy Professor since July 2012, is a mathematical physicist who has made significant contributions to string theory and the advancement of science education. His research focuses on the interface between mathematics and particle physics. In addition to finding surprising and deep connections between matrix models, topological string theory, and supersymmetric quantum field theory, Dijkgraaf has developed precise formulas for the counting of bound states that explain the entropy of certain black holes. For his contributions to science, Dijkgraaf was awarded the Spinoza Prize, the highest scientific award in the Netherlands, in 2003. Recorded live at Meydenbauer Center Theatre on Wednesday, May 9, 2018. 

Intro / Outro The last ones by Jahzzar http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Smoke_Factory/The_last_ones 00:01:00 UISGCON12. Afterworlds. https://12.uisgcon.org/ https://www.facebook.com/rekun.photo/photos/?tab=album&album_id=730563853779312 Видео докладов https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0YHqSi934_5fPXaoNxqx42PI7PrCC2xI 00:01:54 No Name Podcast https://nonamepodcast.podbean.com/ 00:02:14 Интервью с Сергеем Смитиенко. 00:12:34 Hundreds of thousands of TalkTalk and Post Office broadband users are knocked off the internet by cyber-attack that seizes control of their routers http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3991714/Hundreds-thousands-TalkTalk-Post-Office-broadband-users-knocked-internet-cyber-attack-seizes-control-routers.html 00:16:43 Six seconds to hack a credit card http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/news/2016/12/cyberattack/ Does The Online Card Payment Landscape Unwittingly Facilitate Fraud? (pdf) http://eprint.ncl.ac.uk/file_store/production/230123/19180242-D02E-47AC-BDB3-73C22D6E1FDB.pdf How it takes just six seconds to hack a credit card (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwvjZGKwKvY 00:34:23 Хакери атакували українське казначейство http://znaj.ua/news/regions/80081/hakeri-atakuvali-ukrayinske-kaznachejstvo.html 00:43:52 Утверждена Доктрина информационной безопасности России http://kremlin.ru/acts/news/53418 00:51:54 Связаться с Сергеем можно через facebook https://www.facebook.com/sergey.smitienko 00:53:34 Полтавський суд відпустив кіберзлочинця, якого 4 роки шукали правоохоронці 30 країн світу http://poltava.to/news/40979/ 00:56:04 СМИ сообщили о краже 2 млрд руб. со счетов в ЦБ http://www.rbc.ru/finances/03/12/2016/584238709a7947256285e2ff 00:56:59 The UK now wields unprecedented surveillance powers — here’s what it means http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13718768/uk-surveillance-laws-explained-investigatory-powers-bill 00:58:06 FBI’s New Hacking Powers Take Effect This Week http://fortune.com/2016/11/30/rule-41/ 01:01:06 [tor-talk] Javascript exploit https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2016-November/042639.html Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 50.0.1 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-91/ 01:03:03 Standards body warned SMS 2FA is insecure and nobody listened http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/06/2fa_missed_warning/ 01:04:02 Android, Qualcomm move on insecure GPS almanac downloads http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/07/android_qualcomm_move_on_insecure_gps_almanac_downloads/ 01:08:11 Six seconds to hack a credit card http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/news/2016/12/cyberattack/ (повторение мать заикания) 01:09:16 Clarkson stung after bank prank http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7174760.stm 01:12:28 Printer security is so bad HP Inc will sell you services to fix it http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/06/printer_security_sucks_so_bad_hp_has_opened_a_pain_outsourcing_unit/   Книги: Donald E. Knuth The Art of Computer Programming https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Programming-Volumes-1-4A-Boxed/dp/0321751043 Peter Watts Blindsight https://www.amazon.com/Blindsight-Peter-Watts/dp/0765319640/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1483619160&sr=1-1&keywords=Blindsight Cixin Liu The Three-Body Problem https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/0765382032/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1483619237&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Three-Body+Problem Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon https://www.amazon.com/Cryptonomicon-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0060512806/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1483619337&sr=1-1&keywords=Cryptonomicon

When Neal Stephenson wrote Cryptonomicon in 1999, few people realized how accurate his description of the future was…

This we discuss the OS X ransomware spread via the Transmission app. We also follow up on how much to make an app. We discuss the challenges of pair programing for the introverted. Picks: Protocol-Oriented Programming with Swift, The Majestic Monolith & RWDevCon Episode 82 Show Notes: First OS X ransomware detected in the wild, will maliciously encrypt hard drives on infected Macs [Update: How to fix] Reamde: A novel In the Beginning Was the Command Line Seveneves a novel by Neil Stevenson Cryptonomicon Transmission WHAT DOES IT COST TO DEVELOP AN APP? Hockenberry on Making Twitterrific Hypercritical Fogcreek Software Episode 82 Picks: Protocol-Oriented Programming with Swift, by Jon Hoffman The Majestic Monolith RWDevCon

Dr. Rick Kopak stuck around for a second episode to discuss the power of highlighting in digital text, urban fantasy, cyberpunk and the staying power of iconic books. Rick is an educator & researcher at the iSchool at the University of British of Columbia. e-readers like the Kindle offer some good tools to highlight and make notes about the information we’re consuming. However, copyright and other legal issues may be limiting usability. Copyright is a funny thing. Rick tells us about the Open Journal Project. Paul reminds us that Amazon and Netflix used to be the alternate business models and now they are the established norm. There are loads of reading recommendations in this show: Cory Doctorow often offers his books for free at Craphound. William Gibson’s cyberpunk novel Neuromancer. Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash, Anathem, Cryptonomicon, The Baroque Cycle). Charles Stross (The Atrocity Archives, Saturn’s Children). Asimov Heinlein Larry Corriea, Monster Hunters International. William Dufris is a voice actor who has narrated several audio books from the authors above. Scribd now offers a subscription service to audio books & ebooks. It’s like the Netflix for books. $8.99 for as many books as you can read in a month. The 007 Reloaded audio books are a series of James Bond audio books read by famous British actors like Hugh Bonneville & David Tennant. Hachette vs. Amazon. Rick recommends Roam Mobility an inexpensive way to use your mobile phone when traveling. Thanks again to Rick for making the time to join us! If your interested in learning more about information design, check out the iSchool at UBC. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

Kristoffer och Tobias rekommenderar science fiction-böcker och pratar lite politik. Länkar Ancillary justice Alastair Reynolds Borg Peter F. Hamilton Hård science fiction Commonwealth saga Voidtrilogin Looper Hamiltons första trilogi The Abyss beyond dreams Neal Stephenson Seveneves Snow crash Neuromancer Cryptonomicon Reamde Tom Clancy The Baroque cycle Anathem Spelet Neal Stephenson ville göra William Gibson The Peripheral Zero history Pattern recognition Cyberpunk Johnny Mnemonic Count Zero Cyberspace Accelerando Charles Stross Singularity sky Jimmie Åkesson sjukskriven Björn Söder Åsa Romson och det uteblivna drevet Titlar Boksnack Köns-assignment i språket Prata om hur man äter sina flingor Cyberpunk och super-episk science fiction De är lite ledsna för att de förlorade

The Silent Rifle as a 3rd Gravitating Body “Dangling like this from his leg, his upside-down perspective made him giddy. If this were to be his last moment he would die happy, but it would not. Instead, he'd soon be singing karaoke with a group of Korean tourists. But first, the roller coaster.”? – Christina Gressianu, opening lines of an unwritten novel Anton Chekhov wrote a letter to Aleksandr Semenovich Lazarev dated November 1, 1889, in which he said, “Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.” Tragically, this casual advice became the sacred and unbreakable rule of scriptwriting known as “Chekhov's Gun” in which every element in a story must be necessary and irreplaceable. Obey the rule of Chekhov's Gun and your stories will be predictable to all but the youngest of children. Movies are predictable, TV shows are predictable and Advertising is predictable because some fool decided Chekhov was a messenger sent from God. No, let us be fair to Chekhov: his advice was given in 1889 when less than 1 percent of the public had ever read a novel or seen a play. Motion pictures were an inventor's experiment in a laboratory. Television wasn't even a fantasy. His audience was, in effect, young children. Would Chekhov offer the same advice today? Let me assure you he would not. Surprise and delight are strangled by the cruel hands of Predictability. If you will write an interesting story, wallpaper the room with guns that are never used and never explained. An unfired gun is a curious distraction, a potential disaster or delight that hovers beautiful like a hummingbird just out of view. I use “gun” only as the metaphor for a literary device, just as Chekhov did. Can an oversized bottle of champagne be a silent rifle, a hovering gun hanging beautifully on the wall? Of course it can. One of my favorite passages in literature flagrantly violates the rule of Chekhov's Gun. It is an inexplicable paragraph inserted into the middle of Cryptonomicon, an extraordinary adventure/mystery novel written by Neal Stephenson. The gun on the wall is a bowl of breakfast cereal. The cereal, the milk, the eating of the cereal, indeed breakfast itself is utterly unnecessary in the story of Cryptonomicon. But there it is: “World-class cereal-eating is a dance of fine compromises. The giant heaping bowl of sodden cereal, awash in milk, is the mark of the novice. Ideally one wants the bone-dry cereal nuggets and the cryogenic milk to enter the mouth with minimal contact and for the entire reaction between them to take place in the mouth. The best thing is to work in small increments, putting only a small amount of Cap'n Crunch in your bowl at a time and eating it all up before it becomes a pit of loathsome slime, which, in the case of Cap'n Crunch, takes about thirty seconds… He pours the milk with one hand while jamming the spoon in with the other, not wanting to waste a single moment of the magical, golden time when cold milk and Cap'n Crunch are together but have not yet begun to pollute each other's essential natures.” Chekhov, I believe, would approve. Welcome, Anton, to 2013. Roy H. Williams

Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing (William Morrow & Company) Neal Stephenson, the beloved and bestselling author of modern speculative fiction classics including Reamde, Anathem, and Snow Crash, will discuss and sign his brand-new collection of essays, Some Remarks. "Neal Stephenson has made a name for himself as a writer whose imagination knows no limits." —Salon Neal Stephenson is the author of Reamde; Anathem; the three-volume historical epic the Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World); Cryptonomicon; The Diamond Age; Snow Crash, which was named one of Time magazine's top one hundred all-time best English-language novels; and Zodiac.  He lives in Seattle, Washington. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS AUGUST 8, 2012.

Neal Stephenson appears at the 2011 National Book Festival. Speaker Biography: Neal Stephenson is the author of the three-volume historical epic "The Baroque Cycle" ("Quicksilver," "The Confusion" and "The System of the World") and the novels "Cryptonomicon," "The Diamond Age," "Snow Crash," "Zodiac" and "Anathem." Last year, Stephenson introduced "The "Mongoliad," a fiction project distributed primarily as a series of apps for smartphone. Stephenson's new novel, "Reamde" (William Morrow) is the story of a wealthy tech entrepreneur caught in the very real crossfire of his own online fantasy war game. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5300.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Dickson was at Pop!Tech last week. Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon. US Geological Survey Disease Maps. CDC page on Hendra and Nipah viruses. The flying fox (Google image search). Vincent’s virology course. Vincent’s texbook is Principles of Virology, third edition, ASM Press (available December 2008). Science podcast pick of the week: Brain Science Podcast.