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One of the most proficient and creative writers working today, Neal Stephenson is renowned for his exceptional novels - works colossal in eye-sight and mind-boggling in complexness. Exploring and blending a variety of matters, including technology, economics, record, technology, pop culture, and school of thought, his books are the products of an enthusiastic and ambitious intellect. Not surprisingly, Stephenson is regularly asked to add articles, lectures, and essays to varied shops, from major newspapers and cutting-edge mags to college or university symposia. This exceptional collection includes previously published short writings, both fiction and nonfiction, as well as a new essay (and an exceptionally short account) created specifically for this level. Stephenson ponders a wealth of topics, from videos and politics to David Foster Wallace and the Midwestern North american College Town; video games to classics-based sci-fi; how geekdom has become cool and how science fiction has become mainstream (whether people admit it or not); the future of publishing and the origins of his novels. Playful and provocative, Some Remarks exhibits Stephenson's viewpoints and ideas on
- The Internet, our dwindling national attention period, and the ethnic importance of catalogs and bookishness;
- Waco, faith, and the cluelessness of secular modern culture;
- Metaphysics and the struggle between Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz;
- The laying of the longest line on Earth - and just why it matters to you;
- Technology, freedom, commerce, and the China;
- How Legend Wars and 300 reflection who were today and what that spells for our future; and
- Modern Jedi knights, a.k.a. scientists and technologists, and just why they are respected and feared by both the still left and the right.
