Some AI art I just generated, that inadvertently came out looking like it could be the cover of "The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson.

#AIArt #SciFi #TheDiamondAge

RITA: Sorry, I got out as fast as I could. I had to stay & socialize. Protocol, you know.
NELL: Explain protocol. [This was how she always talked to the Primer]
R: At the place we're going, you need to watch your manners. Don't say 'explain this' or 'explain that.'
N: Would it impose on your time unduly to provide me with a concise explanation of the term protocol?
[Again Rita made that nervous laugh and looked at Nell with an expression that looked like poorly concealed alarm]
#TheDiamondAge

These clowns are trying to manifest #NealStephenson’s #TerminationShock…

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/24/1066041/a-startup-says-its-begun-releasing-particles-into-the-atmosphere-in-an-effort-to-tweak-the-climate/

How many more of Stephenson’s dystopias are there left for idiot tech bros to implement? One: #TheDiamondAge.

We’re 80% there with: #Oligarchies, #wealthcliques #SurveillanceStates, #mediaglyphs/emoji, permanent #underclasses, etc. TBD: #MatterCompilers.

@brianklaas Sounds a bit Neo-Victorian and all #GreatChainOfBeing doesn’t it? Maybe Neal Stephenson got it right #TheDiamondAge #bookstodon

Just, finally, finished reading #TheDiamondAge by #NealStephenson

An interesting read that reminds me a little of #StandOnZanzibar by #JohnBrunner though I've only just thought that as I was typing this post.

Onwards to #FallOrDodgeInHell

#AmReading #eBooks

Was digging through an old hard-drive, and found an article that @KevinCarson1 wrote for the The #Bitcoin Sun in 2011. How he starts off:

"#NealStephenson's "#TheDiamondAge" was set some years after encrypted currencies and e-commerce removed most economic transactions into #darknets beyond the government's capability of monitoring and regulating, and thus caused tax bases around the world to implode. This was followed, in short order, by the collapse of most nation-states."