“We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that you keep humming all day until you spread it to someone else. Jokes. Urban legends. Crackpot religions. Marxism. No matter how smart we get, there is always this deep irrational part that makes us potential hosts for self-replicating information.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
I am well aware of Neil Stephenson and his contemporaries. It’s still cringe opening your book with a lexical definition. It’s not very well written either, and a bit too comic bookey for me, but personally I didn’t read the thing of course.
“We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that you keep humming all day until you spread it to someone else. Jokes. Urban legends. Crackpot religions. Marxism. No matter how smart we get, there is always this deep irrational part that makes us potential hosts for self-replicating information.” ― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
Far more worried about the ads than the AI generated videos tbh.
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I refuse to read books or watch films that open with a lexical definition of the title.
I just don’t do that.
Who cares?
Exactly!
I meant about your preferences.
It’s a great book if you can get past that to the first line of the book.
I endured the first few chapters. If the first line represented my expectation of the book, then the rest confirmed it.
Ok, read 50 Shades then.
The book is excellent and predictive of so much tech culture to come out shortly after.
I am well aware of Neil Stephenson and his contemporaries. It’s still cringe opening your book with a lexical definition. It’s not very well written either, and a bit too comic bookey for me, but personally I didn’t read the thing of course.
You know someone’s anus it itchy when there’s that continuous 1 disapproving downvote.
Now I don’t know whose anus to scratch!