This is "the Word" - one man's word, certainly - about the art (and artifice) of the state of our computer-centric existence. And considering that the "one man" is Neal Stephenson, "the hacker Hemingway" (Newsweek) - acclaimed novelist,...
"The Great Simoleon Caper" is a short story by Neal Stephenson that appeared in TIME Domestic SPECIAL ISSUE (March 1, 1995). It deals with concepts familiar to Stephenson's fans: encryption, digital currency and distributed republics. It appears...
Dans une Chine rétro-futuriste partagée entre réseaux neuronaux, rebelles intégristes néo-confucéens et comptoirs occidentaux, l’Itinéraire d’une toute jeune fille guidée par les préceptes de son...
One flew over the animal house…
If George Orwell had written a novel more like Animal House (the movie) than like Animal Farm (the book), and if Orwell were a young American whose early twenties were spent in the 1980s, and if Orwell counted...
The story is presented in the form of a letter from the main character, Stark, to a female cypherpunk whom he meets in the course of his work. In the story, most information and media channels are hooked together in something called the Spew....