Following up on Monday's musical retrospective, it's time to award some superlatives to the books that I read in 2014. Straying even farther from release dates than with my musical entry, this list reflects books that I read in 2014, not necessarily books that were released this year. Most Hyped Book (That I Didn't Really Like) - [...]
Tag: Snow Crash
Social Programming
Caitlin and I had dinner with my parents over the weekend and I couldn't help but notice that a lot of their stories that in the past would have started with "I was talking to [so-and-so] the other day," now begin with "I saw on Facebook the other day that [yada yada]." That's not a meaningless difference. [...]
Swords In the Snow
There can be little debate that Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash (1992) was prescient. It imagined a digital landscape (the Metaverse) that bears a striking resemblance to a number of current-day e-communities like Second Life or even the World of Warcraft. It also described a massive future shift in the capitalist power structure that allowed for corporatocracy to replace [...]
Songs & Stories 